• Practice presentation: 10min, no discussion, written feedback
• Public presentations: 15 min + 10 min discussion, oral and written feedback
• Your presentation should focus and address sections 1 and 2 from Thesis proposal

• Submission rates to conferences have by-and-large doubled.
• Where do you find reviewers?
• Partial answer: AI
• Problem with AI use: Hidden prompt injection
• Alternative: Ask specific questions about the paper.

• There is a difference between:
  • reading papers and taking notes
  • critically reviewing a paper
• They serve very different purposes.
• Reviews are an evaluation of the quality and contribution of the work.
• Reading papers usually is generally to help you understand existing work.
• Here are some of the things you should consider recording for each paper:
  • What are the paper’s Title and Author?
  • What is your take-away message from this paper?
  • What are motivations for this work?
  • What is the proposed solution?
  • What is the work's evaluation of the proposed solution?
  • What is your analysis of the identified problem, idea and evaluation?
  • Is this a good idea?
  • What are the contributions?
  • What are future directions for this research?
  • What questions are you left with?
  • What are some cited papers mentioned in this paper that you would like to read next?
• Additional things to consider recording as appropriate:
  • What is the principal research question (if any)?
  • What is the main finding? Supplemental finding(s)?
  • What methods are used? (What are the stages? Interactions between stages? Data output?)

Assignments

• Day 4: Complete the review for a paper you read this week.