Advice for Researchers and Students
by Tao Xie
A LONG list of Categorized Advice Collection
For All Students and Researchers
Primarily for Undergraduate Students
- 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
- You and Your Research Slides
- You and your research by Richard Hamming
- Online lecture on You and your research by Richard Hamming
- Online lectures on "Learning to learn" by Richard Hamming
- Normal Levels
- A LONG list of Categorized Advice Collection
Strongly Recommended Advice by Others
- Advice on Preparing a Personal Statements
- Advice Collection on Fellowship Applications (with some info applicable to graduate students)
Other Links
- On Offering Advice to Aspiring Scientists by Oded Goldreich
- Some Modest Advice for Graduate Students by Stephen C. Stearns
- 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
- 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
- Paper writing