Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
Course Teacher:
Dr. Masud Hasan
Office: B20
Email: mhasan2010@gmail.com (in English please)
Class Schedule:
- Boys: Sunday and Tuesday, 4:00pm-5:15pm, B12-Lab9
- Girls: Sunday and Tuesday, 5:30pm-6:45pm, TV17
TextBook:
- No fixed textbook. Time to time resource materials will be provided.
- Reference list from course catalog: [pdf]
Office Hours: Sunday and Tuesday 11:30am-12:30pm
Course Plan: [pdf]
Marks Distribution:
- Active participation in the class: 10%
- Attendance: 5%
- Participating in Q&A sessions: 5%
- Assignments: 30%
- Rewrite a paper with reviews (positive sides as well as critics): 15%
- Other assignments: 15%
- Project: 40%
- Presentation: 15%
- Report writing: 25%
- Final exam: 20%
- Bonus on Class Performance: Time to time I may give bonus marks for your class performance.
Important Dates:
- 06 February 2018 (Tuesday): Topic selection last date
03 10 March 2018 (Saturday): Paper rewriting submission last date- 31 March 2018: Assignment 2 deadline
- 01 April 2018, Sunday 12:00noon: Select dates for presentation and Q&A session
21 28 April 2018 (Saturday): Project report submission last date- 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24 April 2018: Project presentation
Lectures:
(Supplementary materials are for general purpose research and not specific to computer science research. You do not need to memorize them, but you should read them so that you understand the similarities of research in different subjects)
- Lecture 1: Introduction
- Reading materials: Introduction to research [pdf 1, 2]
- Slides [pdf]
- Lecture 2: Most recent and major research areas in computer science
- Lecture 3: How to select a good research topic. Part I: Selecting research area and subarea
- Slides [pdf]
- Supplementary reading [pdf]
- Lecture 4: How to select a good research topic. Part II: Selecting a research topic
- Lecture 5: Understand the topic, gather problems
- Slides [pdf]
- Supplementary materials [pdf 1, 2]
- Lecture 5.5: Paper rewrite guideline and examples
- Lecture 6: Formulate problems, generate hypotheses
- Slides [pdf]
- Supplementary materials [pdf 1, 2]
- Lecture 7: Research phases
- Lecture 8: Research design. Part I
- Lecture 9: Research design. Part II
- Sides [pdf], remaining slides 13-23 [pdf]
- Lecture 10: Actual research
- Slides [pdf, page 1-12] [pdf, page 13-end]
- Lecture 11: Report writing
- Lecture 12: Publishing
- Lecture 13: Presentation
- Slides: No slides provided. Let us see other peoples slides from internet.
- Lecture 14, 15: Review
Assignments:
Exercise:
Final Exams:
- Syllabus: Lecture 1 to 12 (up to Slide 6)
- Question type: See some guideline [pdf]
- Exam type:
- Open book: Any printed material is allowed
- Closed device: Any electronic device (mobile phone, tablet, computers, etc.) is not allowed
Marks: Boys, Girls