Subject NoticeBoard
(Messages are presented in reverse chronological order)
| Week 1 (Posted by Anne Ngu, June 26, 2026) |
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Welcome to CS7300 Course Site. I look forward to meeting everyone and please come prepared with an elevator speech of yourself for the first class (on August 21). We will be meeting at Comal 212 for the first few weeks.
We will be going over the program requirement and listen to PhD journeys from faculty and industry researchers:
It is very useful to go through the self-paced new graduate orientation materials prepared by the Graduate College. You can find the NGO Link There is a meet and greet new gradute student event in San Marcos campus on August 11. Check the information on Graduate College page for more details. |
| Week 2 (Posted by Anne Ngu, August 22, 2026) |
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We will finish off the overview of PhD program and start on doctoral research, CS research processes, advisor management, time management and research ethics this coming week. Please note that we will meet in Comal Rm 116 for this coming Friday. Please remember to start creating your Degree Plan based on the information I shared last week regarding the program. You can find an exmaple degree plan of a student entering with a master degree in Canvas under Module. You also should think about your personal webpage. You can host your pages under your unix's account in your public_html directory. I need an url that looks something like: https://userweb.cs.txstate.edu/~your netid. On the schedule page, under useful links, there is a template website that you can use. The personal website page site is something can I do encourage you to use AI to generate it if you prefer.. |
| Week 3 (Posted by Anne Ngu, September 4, 2025) |
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We will finish off CS Research Processes and ethnics and discuss time and advisor management which are both crtical to the success of your PhD journey. Please read the article on On Being a Scientist if you have time. Come to class with some known cases of unethnical conducts taht you are aware of. Please complete your PhD Journey webpage ASAP and move on to the degree plan HW. Be ready to share your degree plan in class if called upon. We will meet in Comal Rm 212 this Friday. |
| Week 4 (Posted by Anne Ngu, September 05, 2026) |
The following faculty will be presenting their research. As indicated in the schedule, you need to take note and reflect on each presentation in terms of what is the most significance research problem being addressed, why it is a good research question and how the result is being validated. Please download the file form.pdf under modules (faculty presentation videos..) in Canvas for that purpose.
We will meet in Comal Rm 212 this Friday. |
| Week 5 (Posted by Anne Ngu, September 14, 2026) |
The following faculty will be presenting their research for this week.
Hope you take good notes on last week's presentation and continue to do so for this week. You will need to make a final decision on the title of your rotation project and update it on the google doc posted on Canvas (you need to ask for permission to update the page from me first). Your rotation project can involve more than one mentors if it invloves two complementart areas of research. Don't forget to post your time management tip to the class discussion forum. The due date for this is September 25. We will still meet at Comal 212 for this week. |
| Week 6 (Posted by Anne Ngu, September 21, 2025) |
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We will start on systematic literature documentation presented by librarian, a quick review on Graduate College resources presented by Ashley, and finally how to critically review a research paper this Friday. This is an in-person class.
We will meet in Comal for the last time this week.
You should start serious discussion with faculty you are interested to work with on rotation project now. Don't forget to email me your rotation project details or update it to the spreadsheet (just the title and mentor) by Friday, October 2. |
| Week 7 (Posted by Anne Ngu, September 28, 2026) |
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We will be covering communicating your research (oral presentation, poster presentation, research paper writing) this Friday.
This is an in-person only class in Derrek 235. Note the due dates for your paper critique and the literature collection HWs. |
| Week 8 (Posted by Anne Ngu, October 5, 2026) |
| It is fall break this week. We won't meet as a class this week, but remeber that the paper critique HW is due on Oct 9. |
| Week 9 (Posted by Anne Ngu, October 10, 2026) |
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We won't met in person this week. You will use the class time to complete the library module and finish the library quiz.
Remember to set up your paper collection system, upload screen shot in canavas and show me the system when we meet next. |
| Week 10 (Posted by Anne Ngu, October 17, 2026) |
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We won't meet this week in-person. You will use class time to complete the CITI online training on Responsible Conduct of Research.
The instruction on how to logon to the CITI website is listed under the class schedule page on the class website. At the completion of the course, they will send you a certificate and please upload that certificat to Canvas under the CITI assignment link. Please check out the date for your rotation project presentation. It will occur on Oct 30 and Nov 6. The presentation will assess your research communication skill, project motivation, methodology for achieviing the project goal, some initiate results if you have some. You will judged by three faculty. Your presentation will be a 20 mins + 5 mins question time. |