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CRA-W Graduate School Panel. Dalhousie University, Faculty of Computer Science March 11, 2009. Introductions. Evangelos Milios , Moderator Associate Dean, Research, Dalhousie University, Faculty of Computer Science Ph.D. from M.I.T. (1986) S.M., E.E. from M.I.T. (1983)
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CRA-W Graduate School Panel Dalhousie University, Faculty of Computer Science March 11, 2009
Introductions Evangelos Milios, Moderator • Associate Dean, Research, Dalhousie University, Faculty of Computer Science • Ph.D. from M.I.T. (1986) • S.M., E.E. from M.I.T. (1983) • Dipl. Eng. NTUA, Greece (1980) • Area of Interests: Modeling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces, Text Mining, Graph Mining, Social Network Analysis
Introductions Ellen W. Zegura, Distinguished Lecturer • Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology • Ph.D. (1993), MCSc (1990), B.S. in Electrical Eng. (1987) from Washington University • Area of Interest: Development of wide-area (Internet) networking services and, more recently, Mobile Wireless Networking, Disruption Tolerant Networks.
Introductions • Valentina Salapura, Distinguished Lecturer • IBM Master Inventor and System Architect at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center • Ph.D. from Technische Universitat Wien, Vienna, Austria • MS in Electrical Eng. and Computer Science from University of Zagreb, Croatia. • Area of Interest: Application-specific Acceleration for Next Generation Systems, Multiprocessor Interconnect and Synchronization and Multithreaded, Multicore Architecture Design and Evaluation
Introductions Andrew McIntyre • Currently employed by Spielo Manufacturing, Moncton • Held post-doc with Dr. Abidi (NICHE), Dr. Artes (Ophthalmology) and Dr. Song (NRC Neuro-Imaging lab) • Ph.D. from Dalhousie University (2007) • BSc, Mount Allison University • Area of Interest: Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computation, Image Processing
Introductions • Tony Abou-Assaleh • Director of Research and Development for GenieKnows.com • PhD in Computer Science from Dalhousie University (2008) • Master of Mathematics in Computer Science from University of Waterloo (2003) • B.Sc in Computer Science from Brock University (2001) • Area of Interest: Probabilistic Reasoning, Knowledge Management Systems, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, and Privacy and Security.
Introductions • Ozge Yeloglu • Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, Dalhousie University • M.C.Sc from Dalhousie University (2007) • B.Eng. in Computer Eng. from Ege University, Turkey (2004) • Area of Interest: Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Knowledge Management Systems, Information Retrieval.
Some Questions • Why did you go to grad school? • Research is what the graduate school experience really is all about, so what excites you about the research you do? • How to prepare for grad school ? • How to find out if you like research? • What are the myths and surprises in grad school ? • What was your biggest challenge ? • PhD or MSc?
Some Questions (cont) • What are the career paths after a PhD? • How long does a PhD program take? • How to apply to graduate school? • Where to apply to? • How does funding work?
Resources • Graduate School Information brochure and other information: http://www.cra.org/highlights/student.html • Advice for undergraduates considering graduate school: http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/grad-school.html • How to succeed in graduate school: http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-2/advice1.htmlhttp://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-3/advice2.html • Choosing a ph.d. program in computer science http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds6-1/choosing.html • Internships & more: http://www.acm.org/crossroads/resources • Fellowships: http://pag.csail.mit.edu/~amy/fellowships.html • Graduate studies resources: http://users.cs.dal.ca/~eem/gradResources/
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