From Research Ideas to High-quality Papers

Speaker:	Prof. Qiang YANG
		Department of Computer Science & Engineering
		Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Title:		"From Research Ideas to High-quality Papers"

Date:		Monday, 24 September 2007

Time:		4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theatre F
		(Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theatre, near lift nos. 25/26)
		HKUST

ABSTRACT:

Young researchers, including PG students, often encounter great
difficulties in selecting a good research topic and formulating, writing
and publishing the ideas in the form of high-quality research papers.
How can we identify good ideas for our research?  How can we formulate our
ideas into high quality papers? How can we improve our paper-writing
skills and avoid some of the typical mistakes? I will try to draw from
some of my experience in answering these questions.



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Biography:

Qiang Yang is a faculty member at Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology. His primary research interest is Artificial Intelligence. He
was a professor and Canadian NSERC Industry Research Chair from 1995 to
2001 at Simon Fraser University in Canada, and an assistant/associate
professor at the University of Waterloo between 1989 and 1995.  He
graduated from Peking University in 1982 and holds a master's degree in
astrophysics and a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of
Maryland, College Park, USA.  His interests include artificial
intelligence planning, learning and data mining. His home page is at
http://cse.hkust.edu.hk/~qyang/