How to do Research Part 1: Coming Up to Speed
How to get started on a new research topic. How to do a literature search. How to read a paper. How to identify the researchers you’d like to follow and how to do it. How can you determine what is good research and what isn’t? Importance of reproducibility in open science.
Presenters:
Yale Gertner (ygertner@illinois.edu)
I am a Teaching Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I teach Fundamentals of Algorithms I and II and Excursions into Computing I and II in the iCAN program, a new graduate certificate program for broadening participation in Computer Science. It is designed as a bridge program for individuals who completed their bachelor's degrees in a field other than computing and wish to either pursue a master's degree in computer science or a professional career involving computing. My research interests are in computer science education in the areas of broadening participation in computing and designing interventions to increase students learning outcomes.
I received my BS and MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT (1997), with masters thesis under the direction of Shafi Goldwasser in Cryptography. I received my PhD in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania (2003) under the direction of Sampath Kannan in the area of Cryptography. In the field of cryptography, my major contributions are advances in the study of the relative powers of cryptographic primitives and Private Information Retrieval. I then did postdoctoral training with Cynthia Fisher in Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2003-2006) and was a Beckman Fellow from 2006 to 2009. In the field of language acquisition, my findings were on verb learning and the early development of sentence comprehension. I joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Teaching Assistant Professor in 2020. My focus is on broadening participation in Computer Science. I have been developing materials and teaching for iCAN.
Mahesh Viswanathan (vmahesh@illinois.edu)
Mahesh Viswanathan obtained his bachelor's degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur in 1995, and his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. He was a post-doctoral fellow at DIMACS with a joint appointment at Telcordia Technologies in 2000-01. Since Fall 2001, he has been on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are in the core areas of logic, automata theory, and algorithm design, with applications to the algorithmic verification of systems.
Yongjoo Park (yongjoo@illinois.edu)
Yongjoo Park is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a part of the Data and Information Systems Lab. Yongjoo builds intelligent data-intensive systems using statistical and AI techniques. Yongjoo obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2017, and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University. Yongjoo has received a 2021 Engineering Council Outstanding Advising Award and a 2017 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award runner-up. Yongjoo has also co-founded a startup company (Keebo, Inc.)
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