COMP4951 Notices

Thesis Showcase 2022

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Friday 25 November 2022, 06:17:31 PM, last modified Friday 25 November 2022, 06:19:03 PM.

Each year we organise a Thesis Showcase where outstanding Thesis C students will show off their work to the School staff, their fellow students and a wider community. We are delighted to invite you to attend the Showcase for 2022 where about 20 students will be presenting their work in an in-person interactive poster and demonstration session. One student, who is still overseas, will take part remotely.

The Showcase will at 4-6pm on Friday, 9 Dec 2022, in the Innovation Central Sydney located in the basement of Building K17. Please come and support your fellow students!

A tentative list of students who will be presenting is here .

Thesis A Report submission

Posted by Jing Hsu Monday 14 November 2022, 11:32:07 AM.

Dear Thesis A Students,

Hope your thesis is going well.

In Week 11, you are required to submit your Thesis A report.

The word and latex templates can be found under the week 3 category.

Key facts about your report:

• Worth 75% of your thesis A total result.
• Only a PDF file is accepted.
• Submit the report in TMS by 10pm 23th Nov Wednesday Week 11 (firm). If you cannot submit it by the deadline due to some valid reasons, contact me for an extension ( Supervisor approval email required ).

If you have further information to be included, please let me know. Thanks.

Regards,

Dr. Jing Hsu, CSE Thesis Administrator

Thesis A Presentation guide

Posted by Jing Hsu Tuesday 25 October 2022, 11:51:21 AM.

Dear Thesis A Students,

In Week 8, you are required to give a presentation about your thesis progress. Please schedule a time in Week 8 for the presentation with your supervisor and assessor. Although no other attendees are required, it is good to have relevant people who are interested in your project, to attend your presentation so that you can get more feedback.

Due to Covid-19, you can do the presentation online. We recommend Microsoft Teams which is included in UNSW office 365 and can be login by using your zpass.

You can also discuss with you supervisor and assessor to choose another online meeting software, such as skype, google meeting, and zoom…

Key facts about your presentation:

• Worth 25% of your Thesis A final result.
• Follow the Marking Criteria and Assessment Components to prepare your presentation .
• Organise the time/date yourself with supervisor and assessor
• A 45-minute demonstration about your Thesis A topic and the plan (including talk/demo, Q&A, debrief with supervisor/assessor)
• Submit the presentation slides on TMS by 10pm 6th Nov Sunday Week 8 (firm) . If you cannot submit it by the deadline due to some valid reasons, contact me for an extension (supervisor approval must be provided). You can also make an application through special consideration portal with support documents.

One IMPORTANT thing to note:

If you cannot find a suitable time to do the presentation in week 8, you can do it later, but you MUST submit your slides by the due date. Otherwise, you will get the late penalty .

If you have further information to be included, please let me know. Thanks.

Good luck with the presentation.

Regards,
Dr. Jing Hsu, CSE Thesis Admin

Thesis Topic Registeration

Posted by Jing Hsu Monday 12 September 2022, 10:54:37 AM, last modified Monday 12 September 2022, 11:04:15 AM.

Dear Thesis A students,

By the end of Week 1, you need to register your thesis topic details and set up a thesis project (project = topic + you + supervisor + assessor).

IMPORTANT: students without a topic by this deadline will be asked to discontinue Thesis A and try again next term.

Before registering your topic, you need to contact potential supervisors and get acceptance from a supervisor, who provide the topic and nominate an assessor for your thesis.

Then you can register the topic in Thesis Management System (TMS): https://thesis.cse.unsw.edu.au/ .

• The supervisor creates the topic and adds an assessor for the project if it doesn't exist in TMS.
• You can find the topic in TMS and apply for it.
• Your supervisor accepts you in TMS.
• You agree to take the project in TMS.

If your supervisor haven't put their topic there, you should ask them politely to add their topic to the thesis system.

If a topic in TMS is not available to apply, please send me the accept email from your supervisor and the topic name or link, then I can make it available or allocate it to you.

Best Regards,

Dr. Jing Hsu, CSE Thesis Admin

Recording of the "How to write a good thesis?" talk

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Friday 09 September 2022, 06:26:34 PM.

The recording of the "How to write a good thesis?" talk is now available. You can find it under Week 0 in the Week-to-week section of the course website.

Slides and recording for the "Intro to Thesis" talk

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Wednesday 07 September 2022, 02:18:12 PM.

The slides and recording for the "Intro to Thesis" talk is now available on the course website https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs4951 . At the website, click on Week-to-week on the menu on the left, and you will find the materials under Week 0.

An important point in the talk is that if you have not found a topic and supervisor, please work on that quickly so that you can get started in Week 1. You can find the topics at the Thesis Management System (TMS) https://thesis.cse.unsw.edu.au/ website. Also, don't remember the 3-way handshake on TMS: you apply for a topic, supervisor approves and you accept.

Welcome to Thesis A and activities in Week 0

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 05 September 2022, 09:43:56 AM, last modified Monday 05 September 2022, 09:45:44 AM.

Welcome to Thesis A for 22T3!

I hope you're excited to start Thesis A as it heralds, for most of you, the beginning of your last year of your degree.

My name is Chun Tung Chou and I am the convenor for CSE Research Thesis. We have arranged two activities for you for Week 0. This is the double bonus that you get for starting Thesis in Term 3.

• Wednesday Week 0 (7 Sept) at 11am. I will give a talk on "Introductory to Thesis" which tells you about the mechanics of Thesis A/B/C and to give you some general tips on how to succeed in your Thesis. This talk is online and the Zoom login details are here .
• Thursday Week 0 (8 Sept) at 2pm. Prof. Gernot Heiser will give a talk on "How to write a good thesis?" Prof. Heiser is an award winning professor from CSE and his work has been used in billions of devices worldwide. This talk will be in hybrid format. The physical location is the Level 1 Seminar Room in Building K17. For online attendance, the Zoom login details are here .

I look forward to seeing you in both talks. Both talks will be recorded and made available.