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Some do’s and don’ts from my PhD

Some do’s and don’ts from my PhD. Antoon Goderis Information Management Group CS700 20 October 2006 goderisa@cs.man.ac.uk. Me. Belgian First degree economics (Leuven) Conversion course in CS and AI (Mcr / Edin) Ex-Mentor PhD in the Information Management Group

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Some do’s and don’ts from my PhD

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  1. Some do’s and don’ts from my PhD Antoon Goderis Information Management Group CS700 20 October 2006 goderisa@cs.man.ac.uk

  2. Me • Belgian • First degree economics (Leuven) • Conversion course in CS and AI (Mcr / Edin) • Ex-Mentor • PhD in the Information Management Group • Carole Goble and Robert Stevens eScience Bioinformatics Workflow

  3. Reasons I did a PhD • Some v cool people • Develop and work with latest techniques • If it doesn’t work out, the job market will still be there .. in Manchester • Home of ontologies meeting the real world • Proximity to the academics • English

  4. Do’s

  5. Find your own niche • Find and Do Your Own (Little but Great) Thing • Zigzagging between theory and practice • It’s hard to please two masters • In a little over three (four) years • So choose, at the latest after year one

  6. ‘Add to Knowledge’ • You already have a lot of baggage to draw on • Lots of small steps – so keep going • Who could be your community/communities? Community (or reviewers’) knowledge about whatever t1 t2

  7. Carole Goble Ulrike Sattler Chris Wroe Phil Lord Robert Stevens Mark Greenwood Dave Robertson Bertram Ludaescher Andy Brass Norman Paton Alan Bundy Austin Tate Nikiforos Karamanis Peter Li Alan Rector Serafeim Zanikolas Andreas Wombacher Evgeny Zolin Richard Banach Wilfried Lemahieu Jacques Vandenbulcke Lin Yang Ilkay Altintas Efrat Jaeger Christopher Brooks Edward Lee Stephen Potter Jun Zhao Pinar Alper Duncan Hull Paul Fisher Matt Horridge Khalid Belhajjame Boris Motik Birte Glimm Frank van Harmelen Annette ten Teije Marco Roos Armin Haller Jim Blythe Daniele Turi Sean Bechofer Valentin Zacharias Ewa Deelman Talk to all who will listen 

  8. And find your own truth • Brokering problem-solving methods • Agent-based protocol composition • Process algebra and description logics hybrid • Ontology instance learning • Abduction based ontology retrieval • Workflow interoperability • Simple versus complex and their combination • Gold standard based workflow discovery

  9. Time management • E-mail/phone/instant-chat/meetings • Read related work • Attend courses/seminars/workshops/conferences • Demonstrate • Review • Work dinners • Adapt to a life abroad • Do your own research..

  10. Care for your supervisor • Find a topic you both care for • All feedback is good feedback • Time is short • Prep for the outside • Meetings • Set the agenda • Solutions, not problems • Writings • Print stuff out • Get more than one opinion

  11. Travel • Conferences • Galway, Chicago • Workshops • Edinburgh, Bath, London, Hinxton, Galway, San Diego • Study visits • Innsbruck, Berkeley, San Diego

  12. Anticipate going up and down

  13. Have a life • Life outside research helps life inside • Dare to (actively) do nothing

  14. Don’ts

  15. It’s not about • Being formal versus practical • Being in a sexy domain • Being a coder • Being overly respectful • Pushing out paper • Doing your time

  16. Beware procrastination

  17. Beware procrastination • Nobody cares • whether you show up • whether you do work while you are in • when you leave • But there is a catch  • Output is measured through • Papers in good places • Impact in the community

  18. Finally, a good routine (for me) • Write in order to think • Not think in order to write • Log your (excitement/disillusion with-) ideas • Make it a compelling story • Draw up a timeline with respect to a paper deadline • Prioritise/plan every morning • Keep at least one day per week free of work (-thoughts) • Have a periodic reality check of your ideas • Avoid analysis paralysis: balance thinking/doing

  19. The end Thanks Questions? goderisa@cs.man.ac.uk

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