What Is Research?

Speaker:	Prof. Lionel Ni
		Chair Professor and Head
		Department of Computer Science and Engineering
		The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Title:		"What Is Research?"

Date:		Monday, 12 February 2007

Time:		4:00pm - 5:00pm

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

Abstract:

Every researcher has his or her own approach to conducting research. In
this talk, I wish to share with you my personal views on research. I will
begin by providing a general overview of what research is. Then, I will
discuss how much one should learn before writing a quality research paper,
followed by what PhD-level research consists of. I will then address the
procedure that one must follow for publication. And finally, I will
comment on technical writing and the criteria reviewers may use when
critiquing technical papers.  I hope that my personal experience in this
field will provide you with useful insight for your future research.


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Biography:

Lionel M. Ni is Chair Professor and Head of Computer Science and
Engineering Department at the Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology. He also serves as Director of HKUST China Ministry of
Education/Microsoft Research Asia IT Key Lab, Director of HKUST Digital
Life Research Center, and a Chief Scientist of National Basic Research
Program of China (973 Program) . He earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical
and Computer Engineering at Purdue University in 1980. Among his many
honorary positions, he is honorary chair professor of National Tsinghua
University, distinguished professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University, and
honorary president of South China Institute of Software Engineering,
Guangzhou University. From 1998 to 2001, he was co-founder and CEO of CC&T
Technologies, where he led a team to design and market VoIP related
products. From 1995 to 1996, he was Director of Microelectronic Systems
Architecture Program at US National Science Foundation. A fellow of IEEE,
Dr. Ni has chaired many professional conferences and served on the
editorial board of many journals. He has directly supervised 33 Ph.D.
students, won five best paper awards, and the 1994 Michigan State
University Distinguished Faculty Award. He is a co-author of three books:
"Interconnection Networks: An Engineering Approach" (Morgan Kaufmann,
2002), "Smart Phone and Next Generation Mobile Computing" (Morgan
Kaufmann, 2006) and "Professional Microsoft Smartphone Programming" (Wrox
Publishing, 2007).