Overview
What is it like to be a researcher or a scientist? For young people, including graduate students and junior faculty members in universities, how can they identify good ideas for research? How do they conduct solid research to verify and realize their new ideas? How can they formulate their ideas and research results into high-quality articles, and publish them in highly competitive journals and conferences? What are effective ways to supervise graduate students so that they can establish themselves quickly in their research careers? In this book, Ling and Yang answer these questions in a step-by-step manner with specific and concrete examples from their first-hand research experience. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments / Preface / Basics of Research / Goals of Ph.D. Research / Getting Started: Finding New Ideas and Organizing Your Plans / Conducting Solid Research / Writing and Publishing Papers / Misconceptions and Tips for Paper Writing / Writing and Defending a Ph.D. Thesis / Life After Ph.D. / Summary / References / Author Biographies
Full Product Details
Author: Charles Ling ,
Qiang Yang
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Weight: 0.329kg
ISBN: 9783031793509
ISBN 10: 3031793501
Pages: 154
Publication Date: 19 May 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Author Information
Charles Ling has been a professor at the Western University in Canada since 1989. He obtained his BSc. in Computer Science from the Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1985, and then graduated with his Masters and then Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, in 1987 and 1989, respectively. He specializes in data mining and machine learning, and their applications in Internet, business, healthcare, and bioinformatics. Overall, he has published over 120 research papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals. Charles Ling has also engaged in much professional service in the above areas. He has been an associate editor for several top journals and an organizer for several top conferences in computer science. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE and a Lifetime Member of AAAI (Association of Advancement of Artificial Intelligence). Charles Ling is the director of the Data Mining and Business Intelligence Lab at Western University, where has been involved in several technology transfer projects. Charles Ling is also a specialist in child gifted education. He integrates his research in Artificial Intelligence and cognitive science, and develops a full range of thinking strategies that improve children's intellectual abilities. These thinking strategies embrace, enhance, and connect with math, science, and other areas.
