COSC 6321 - Research Methods in Computer Science (Spring 2025)

 

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

In addition to the lectures, the students are also expected to watch the interviews in Research Diaries.

Semester Timeline
Date Topic    
1/13/2025Course IntroductionLecture 1
1/15/2025PhD TemplateLecture 2
1/27/2025Research IdeasLecture 3
1/29/2025Evaluating Research IdeasLecture 4
2/3/2025Research Ideas and PapersLecture 5
2/5/2025Anatomy of Research Papers - 1Lecture 6
2/10/2025Anatomy of Research Papers - 2Lecture 7
2/12/2025CS ExperimentsLecture 8
2/17/2025CS Experiments and Paper TypesLecture 9
2/19/2025References, Hypothesis, MetricsLecture 10
2/24/2025Hypothesis, MetricsLecture 11
2/26/2025Paper Claims and ExpectationsLecture 12
3/3/2025Conferences. Adequate description of your work.Lecture 13
3/5/2025Paper Review.Lecture 14
3/17/2025Paper Review (Contd.)Lecture 15
3/19/2025Paper Review (Contd.)Lecture 16
3/24/2025Working with data in your research and paper.Lecture 17Prof. Ioannis Konstantinidis
3/26/2025Introduction to Visualization.Lecture 18Guest: Prof. Guoning Chen
3/31/2025Writing Considerations, the low and the high level.Lecture 19
4/2/2025Giving Technical Talks.Lecture 20Prof. Jaspal Subhlok
4/7/2025Giving Technical Talks (Contd.)Lecture 21
4/9/2025Idea Generation. System comparison experiments.Lecture 22
4/21/2025Posters. Pitch. IP.Lecture 25
TBDTPC meeting
TBDConference