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(Messages are presented in reverse chronological order)

Week 1   (Posted by Anne Ngu, July 22, 2025 )
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 29). We will meet in Comal Rm 212 for the first five weeks of the class.

We will be going over the program requirement and listen to PhD journeys from faculty and researcher

  • Dr. Isayas Adhanom
  • Dr. Veronica Perez-Rosa
  • Dr. Apan Qasem
  • Dr Weiming Gu (from IBM)

It is very useful to go through the self-paced new graduate orientation materials prepared by the Graduate College if you missed the official orientation. You can find the NGO Link

Week 2   (Posted by Anne Ngu, August 31, 2025)
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 remember to start creating your PhD personal webpage, the first in the series of class HW. 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.

Week 3   (Posted by Anne Ngu, September 8, 2025)

We will finish off CS Research Processes and ethnics and discuss time and advisor management. Please read the article on On Being a Scientist if you have time.

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.

Week 4   (Posted by Anne Ngu, September 12, 2025)
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 how the research is being communicated, why it is a good research question and how the result is being validated. Please download the file form.pdf under modules in Canvas for that purpose.
  • Dr. Shibbir Ahmed
  • Dr. Heena Rathore
  • Dr. Aniruddha Bora
  • Dr. Veronica Perez-Rosa
  • Dr. Tze-Chiu Au
Week 5   (Posted by Anne Ngu, September 26, 2025)
The following faculty will be presenting their research for this week.
  • Dr. Kecheng Yang
  • Dr. Apan Qasem
  • Dr. Isaya Adhanom
  • Dr. Tanzima Islam
  • Dr. Jelena Tesic

Hope you take good notes on last week's presentation and continue to do so for this week.

You need to make a final decision on the title of your rotation project and update it on the google doc posted on Canvas.

Don't forget to post your time management tip to the class discussion forum. The due date for this is September 30.

Please remember that We will be meeting at Comal Rm 212 for this week.

Week 6   (Posted by Anne Ngu, September 29, 2025)
We will start on systematic literature documentation presented by librarian (Erin Correl) and Graduate College resources that help with your PhD journey presented by Ashleyi. In teh sceond half of the class, I will present how to critically review a research paper. This is an in-person class. Good to bring your labtop to clas so that you can start uisng one of the document management tool in class and complete one of the stated HW for this week.

Now that have heard 10 faculty presentations, it is time to reflect on why those research qustions presented by faculty are important and narrow down your rotation project ideas and enter that on the spreadsheet provded in Canvas.

Please note that we will meet in Rm 212 this Friday.