Arash Habibi Lashkari
Assistant Professor

RESEARCH SEMINAR

The Research Seminar Course is intended to provide students planning a research career in Computer Science with the opportunity to develop the skill of critically reading and evaluating updated research papers. This course normally is open to last semester Master students and first year PhD students.

OBJECTIVE

How to read such papers critically and efficiently,
How to summarise and review papers,
How to judge the value of different contributions,
How proposals are written,
How research papers are written,
How research results are presented

ORGANISATION

pre-coursework: Summary Report / Review Report Based on the research methodology course, you can use the summary technique of step 4 for this section. Student should have minimum one book, 20 updated articles and one updated thesis as references. The collected set of your short summaries should be half to one page for each reference.
Coursework 1: Writing a proposal (25 marks)
Coursework 2:Writing a paper (50 marks, Acceptance letter maximum 10 marks extra)
Coursework 3:Prepare a presentation for research (10 report + 15 presentation in front of class)

LECTURE NOTES

• Session 1: Introduction (same as Research Methodology session 00)
• Session 2: How to find research topic, related references and summarize them
• Session 3: Summarizing 5 papers and articles (Practical session)
• Session 4: Type of Research (Primary or Seconday, ...)
• Session 5: Summarizing 5 papers and articles (Practical session)
• Coursework 1
• Session 6: What is a proposal and how can write it
• Session 7: Summarizing articles with proposal point of view (Practical session)
• Session 8: Research seminar and presentation
• Coursework 2
• Session 9: Research Reports / Papers / Articles
• Session 10: Bibliography and References
• Session 11: Writing Skill
• Session 12: Plagiarism
• Session 13: Presentation
• Session 14: Publishing
• Coursework 3