How to Do Great Research | Grad school survival advice from Nick Feams...

I remember applying for NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship many years ago and being asked to answer a question describing my experiences “integrating research and education”.  At the time, I was baffled by the question, as I hadn’t yet done much teaching...

In this post, I’ll discuss paper selection—how a program committee considers a set of papers, each with a collection of reviews, and produces a program for a conference.
Paper Reviewing vs. Paper Selection
It’s first important to note that the paper review process and the paper selection process are related, but paper reviewing and paper selection are actually two separate events.  There is a human process behind paper selection that involves distilling...

Learning how to review papers not only (obviously) makes you a better reviewer, but it can also help you as an author, since an understanding of the process can help you write your paper submissions for an audience of reviewers.  If you know the criteria...

Little did I know that a Ph.D. in computer science would teach me more about how to write than any other previous experience I’d had.  Indeed, research isn’t only about making new discoveries, but also about expressing those discoveries so that other...