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CRA-W Graduate School
Panel
Dalhousie University, Faculty of Computer
Science March 11, 2009
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Introductions
Evangelos Milios, Moderator– Associate Dean, Research, Dalhousie University, Faculty of Computer Science
– Ph.D. from M.I.T. (1986)– S.M., E.E. from M.I.T. (1983)– Dipl. Eng. NTUA, Greece (1980)– Area of Interests: Modeling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces, Text Mining, Graph Mining, Social Network Analysis
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Ellen W. Zegura, Distinguished
Lecturer– Professor and Chair of Computer Science,
Georgia Institute of Technology– Ph.D. (1993), MCSc (1990), B.S. in Electrical Eng. (1987) from Washington University
– Area of Interest: Development of wide-area (Internet) networking services and, more recently, Mobile Wireless Networking, Disruption Tolerant Networks.
Introductions
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Introductions
Valentina Salapura, Distinguished
Lecturer– IBM Master Inventor and System Architect at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
– Ph.D. from Technische Universitat Wien, Vienna, Austria
– MS in Electrical Eng. and Computer Science from University of Zagreb, Croatia.
– Area of Interest: Application-specific Acceleration for Next Generation Systems, Multiprocessor Interconnect and Synchronization and Multithreaded, Multicore Architecture Design and Evaluation
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IntroductionsAndrew McIntyre
– Currently employed by Spielo Manufacturing, Moncton
– Held post-doc with Dr. Abidi (NICHE), Dr. Artes (Ophthalmology) and Dr. Song (NRC Neuro-Imaging lab)
– Ph.D. from Dalhousie University (2007)– BSc, Mount Allison University– Area of Interest: Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computation, Image Processing
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IntroductionsTony Abou-Assaleh
– Director of Research and Development for GenieKnows.com
– PhD in Computer Science from Dalhousie University (2008)
– Master of Mathematics in Computer Science from University of Waterloo (2003)
– B.Sc in Computer Science from Brock University (2001)
– Area of Interest: Probabilistic Reasoning, Knowledge Management Systems, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, and Privacy and Security.
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IntroductionsOzge Yeloglu
– Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, Dalhousie University
– M.C.Sc from Dalhousie University (2007)
– B.Eng. in Computer Eng. from Ege University, Turkey (2004)
– Area of Interest: Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Knowledge Management Systems, Information Retrieval.
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Some Questions• Why did you go to grad school?
• Research is what the graduate school experience really is all about, so what excites you about the research you do?
• How to prepare for grad school ?
• How to find out if you like research?
• What are the myths and surprises in grad school ?
• What was your biggest challenge ?
• PhD or MSc?
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Some Questions (cont)• What are the career paths after a PhD?
• How long does a PhD program take?
• How to apply to graduate school?
• Where to apply to?
• How does funding work?
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Resources• Graduate School Information brochure and other information:
http://www.cra.org/highlights/student.html
• Advice for undergraduates considering graduate school: http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/grad-school.html
• How to succeed in graduate school: http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-2/advice1.html http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-3/advice2.html
• Choosing a ph.d. program in computer science http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds6-1/choosing.html
• Internships & more: http://www.acm.org/crossroads/resources
• Fellowships: http://pag.csail.mit.edu/~amy/fellowships.html
• Graduate studies resources: http://users.cs.dal.ca/~eem/gradResources/
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