Advice

Advice for Researchers and Students

by Tao Xie

A LONG list of Categorized Advice Collection

For All Students and Researchers

• Tao Xie's Blog on Research and Advising (Blog in Chinese)
• Advanced Levels
  • PhD-Program Preparation for Successful Post-PhD Career (Slideshare)
  • Advice on Writing Research Papers (Slideshare)
  • Mapping out a Research Agenda (Slideshare)
  • Advice on Getting a Start into Research
• Normal Levels
  • Common Technical Writing Issues
  • Critical Skills for Research/Career Development
  • Graduate Student Survival/Success Guide
  • Research Skills
  • Research Ethics
  • Tools and Tips for Writing Paper
  • Checklist for Preparing Camera-Ready Versions
• A LONG list of Categorized Advice Collection

Primarily for Undergraduate Students

• Advice on Preparing a Personal Statements
• Advice Collection on Fellowship Applications (with some info applicable to graduate students)

Strongly Recommended Advice by Others

• Doing Research in Software Analysis: Lessons and Tips by Zhendong Su
• Amazing Career Advice For College Grads From LinkedIn's Billionaire Founder
• 3 qualities of successful Ph.D. students: Perseverance, tenacity and cogency by Matt Might More Here (Graduate School Section)
• PhD or No PhD? The question I’m finally learning to answer by Xiao Ma
• How to get a faculty offer by John Guttag
• Advice to new researchers by Mark Wegman
• Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student by Manuel Blum
• You and your research by Richard Hamming
• The Three Golden Rules for Successful Scientific Research by Edsger W. Dijkstra
• Technology and courage by Ivan Sutherland
• Desires and Diversions (online lectures) by Allen Newell (slides)
• Heilmeier Catechism
• Reflections and advice on life as a mid-stage Ph.D. student and the Ph.D. Grind by Philip Guo

Other Links

• NCSU ASE REU Blog
• Introductory Readings of Sofware Testing Research.