Title: 科技英文寫作與研究方法
Speaker: Prof. Shou-de Lin 林守德, Dept. of CSIE, NTU
Time: 1:20-3:00pm (100 min), Sept. 22, 2008 (Monday)
Place: 台大電機系  明達館 231 室

Abstract: This talk provides tips about how to become a successful
student (in terms of doing high-quality research) in the graduate
level. The aim is to offer not only a survival guide but some
suggestions that will help students figure out the road to
promising. Several major themes will be covered in this talk.
First, I will discuss how to identify a suitable research topic
and how to equip oneself with adequate skills to handle upcoming
challenges. I will then talk about the essentials of performing
high-quality research, including literature survey, methodology
design, evaluation setup, and paper writing as well as
presentation. The proper mindset, mentality, communication skills,
and time management strategies will also be discussed in this
talk.

Bio: Shou-de Lin holds a BS in EE from National Taiwan University,
an MS-EE from the University of Michigan, and an MS in
Computational Linguistics and PhD in Computer Science both from
the University of Southern California. In 2007, he joined the
Computer Science and Information Engineering Department of
National Taiwan University as an assistant professor. He leads the
Machine Discovery and Social Network Mining Lab in NTU. Before
joining NTU, he was a post-doctoral research fellow in the
Information Science Group at the Los Alamos National Lab. Prof.
Lin's research aims to design intelligent systems for information
processing, which generally includes the areas of knowledge
discovery and data mining, natural language processing, social
network analysis and machine learning. His international
recognition includes the best paper award in IEEE Web Intelligent
conference 2003, 2nd place in KDDCup 2003, Google Research Award
in 2007, and KDDCUP winner in 2008.