Once you have passed your comprehensive exams, the time has come for you to complete the dissertation proposal. In this memo, I give you some of my thoughts on ways to approach the proposal. Also, I ...

Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing, yet two fundamental challenges persist: the computational expense of training and the difficulty of precisely controlling ...

Students should begin to think about possible dissertation topics early on in their doctoral career. Keep a file of topics on which you imagine yourself writing. Over the years of course work and ...

Do you know what one of the most crucial aspects of a startup is? It’s a pitch for future investors where you explain all the benefits of your idea and the reasons it will work. A dissertation ...

The dissertation proposal and the specialty exam serve different purposes and should be viewed as separate activities, even though often executed concurrently. The dissertation proposal marks the ...

Graph learning has become a foundational paradigm for modeling relational and structured data. Beyond node and edge attributes, graphs embody rich structural attributes–such as density, centrality, ...

This interdisciplinary workshop seeks to help graduate students at the dissertation proposal and dissertation stage improve the efficiency, consistency, and clarity of their writing. The course ...

A serendipitous meeting! It demonstrated to me the skilful intelligence of one young man with his innovative and highly helpful project; which skills and innovation could very well be indicative of ...