CSSE Senior Thesis/Research Project
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Computer Science and Software Engineering Department

Graduate School

• A valuable article about graduate school, including information on what it takes to work on a dissertation and the benefits and challenges of graduate school.
• A valuable document about what grad schools are looking for when making admissions decisions. This document was compiled based on a chat with alumnus Stephen Mayhew, Ph.D.
• More valuable advice on the importance of people having heard from/about you.
• A article about whether and why and how to get a PhD in CS
• A great article, What I Wish I Had Known Early in Graduate School but Didn’t (and how to prepare for a good job afterward), giving advice on how to maximize your time in grad school.
• Grad school is considerably more theoretical than Rose. You may wish to consider pursuing a double major with Math.
• Here is a ranking of CS grad schools, courtesy of Nathan Hurtig.

Research Opportunities

• CSSE Faculty research interests
• Information about CSSE faculty research interests.
• A valuable resource for undergraduate research
• NCUR
• NSF's REU search site.
• Summer research program finder
• NASA internships

Research Skills

• How to read a scientific paper
• Annotated bibliography
• General paper review guidelines
• A fairly representative conference review form, adapted from AAAI
• The fairly elaborate review process of AAAI 2023
• An article pointing to collusion rings to usurp the research process and a call to action, by Michael Littman, a prominent AI researcher.
• Patrick Henry Winston on How to speak
• How to tell a compelling story in scientific presentations
• How not to chatter like a toddler when giving a scientific presentation"
• How to give a great talk
• Literature review
• Tips for usnig Google Scholar
• Ask your favorite LLM for information, open research questions or key papers on a given area. Consider using ChatGPT's DeepResearch as an option.
• Looking for a paper that is behind a paywall? You have several options: (i) Email the contact or first author and ask for a copy or (ii) use Interlibrary loan or (iii) try to find it on https://arxiv.org/. Warning: Only use papers from arxiv.org that have been peer-reviewed, in other words, a paper that you know to be published in a journal or conference proceedings but that you cannot otherwise access. There are many papers on arxiv.org that have not been peer reviewed.
• Overleaf: A cloud-based LaTex editor
  • Register for an account.
  • Tutorial
• Mendeley: Cloud-based references organizer
  • Mendeley Desktop App
  • Mendeley Web Importer
  • Mendeley Slides
• Example Overleaf Project with Mendeley Library Linked
• Getting real: Submitting a paper to a top-tier conference: AAAI-25: Deadlines, author kits, review process, etc.
• Sample research contract

Senior Thesis/ Research Project Resources

LaTex config file for THU theses

Senior Thesis/Research Project Poster Presentations

• Quick guide to poster presentations
• 2021 Poster presentations
• 2022 Poster presentations
• 2023 Poster presentations

Senior Thesis/Research Project Archive