COMP4951 Notices

Thesis A Report submission

Posted by Jing Hsu Monday 11 November 2024, 03:53:57 PM.

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 20th 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

Reminder: Submission of your presentation slides

Posted by Jing Hsu Friday 01 November 2024, 05:12:34 PM.

Please be reminded that you need to submit your Thesis A presentation slides to the Thesis Management System by 10pm this Sunday (3rd Nov). If you cannot find a suitable time to do the presentation in week 8, you MUST still submit your slides by the due date. Otherwise, you will get the late penalty . The only exception is that if you have been granted an extension to submit your slides by the Thesis Coordinator or Thesis Admin.

This week's blog

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Wednesday 30 October 2024, 04:59:21 PM.

For this week's blog, i will give you some hints on writing the thesis report. Also, this is the last blog for Thesis A.

I hope the blogs were useful for your thesis journey. If you have any feedback, you can email me directly.

All the best with your report.

Presentation schedule / Summer School Opportunity

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Friday 25 October 2024, 03:32:06 PM, last modified Friday 25 October 2024, 06:14:16 PM.

Resending the following notice with the correct link to the presentation schedule. My apologies that I put the wrong link in earlier.

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You can find the presentation schedule for Thesis A and C presentations at here (UNSW login required) . You are welcome to attend other students' presentations to support them. For those who haven't informed us on your presentation details, you can still add it to the Google Forms here (WebCMS3 login required) and we will add to the schedule.

Some of you may be interested in levelling up your skills in mathematics. You may want some interesting topics related to computer science in the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) Summer School 2025, taking place from 7–31 January at The University of Sydney, and online. Details are here .

Week 8 presentation: In-person to a wider audience / Week 8's blog

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 21 October 2024, 08:48:39 AM, last modified Monday 21 October 2024, 08:48:53 AM.

We have written to you last week on Week 8's presentation. We recommend that you do it in-person rather than online. The minimum audience of your presentation is your supervisor and assessor, but it will be good if you can deliver your presentation to a wider audience including other thesis students. It will also be great if you can attend other students' presentations .

In order that you can deliver an in-person presentation that other students can attend, we have reserved rooms in K17 for you to use or we can book a room for you. You can use the Google Forms link here (WebCMS3 login required) to:

1. Book a time slot in a room in K17 to do your thesis presentation
2. Ask us to book a room for you
3. Let us know the time and location of your presentation if you already have a room available

We will compile the information and announce a schedule so that you can attend other students' presentations. Although we are not making in-person presentation to a wider audience compulsory this term, we strongly encourage you to do it.

We ask you to provide the information to us by Thur 24 Oct (Week 7) so that we can announce an initial schedule this Friday.

Not surprisingly, my blog this week gives you some hints on doing your Thesis A presentation.

Thesis A Presentation Guide

Posted by Jing Hsu Tuesday 15 October 2024, 10:14:26 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.

You can do the presentation on-site or online .However, we encourage you doing the presentation on-site .

For online presentation, we recommend Microsoft Teams which is included in UNSW office 365 and can be login by using your zpass.

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 3rd Nov Sunday Week 8 . 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

Week 5's blog: Making plans

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Tuesday 08 October 2024, 08:27:14 AM.

In this week's blog, I offer some hints on making your plans for Thesis B and Thesis C.

Week 4's blog

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 30 September 2024, 09:33:31 AM.

In this week's blog, I discuss the elements that you need to include in your literature review and some hints on how you can highlight the state-of-the-art.

Recordings: "How to write a good thesis?" and "Online search strategy"

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 23 September 2024, 08:55:15 AM.

The recordings of these the talk "How to write a good thesis?" and the seminar "Online search strategy" are now available. They are located under Week 2 of the Week-by-week section of the course website.

Week 3's blog

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 23 September 2024, 08:52:50 AM.

In my blog for this week, I remind of two tips that I mentioned in the thesis seminar in Week 0. The first is that you need to devote time each week to work on your thesis. The second is a recipe on how to make use the weekly meeting with your supervisor.

Week 2's blog: searching and reading technical papers

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Tuesday 17 September 2024, 01:58:12 PM.

I mentioned in my blog last week that the first tasks in your Thesis A are to understand your thesis topic and to understand the state-of-the-art. For that, you will need to conduct a literature search and to read technical papers. In this week's blog, I will give you some hints on how to do these.

Reminder: "How to write a good thesis?" talk at 1pm on Thur, Week 2

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 16 September 2024, 08:49:07 AM, last modified Monday 16 September 2024, 08:49:21 AM.

A reminder on the Thesis talk "How to write a good thesis?" in Week 2. The talk will be given by Prof. Gernot Heiser who is an award winning professor from CSE and his work has been used in billions of devices worldwide.

The talk will be at 1pm, Thur 19 Sept 2024 (Week 2). This is a hybrid seminar. We encourage you to attend in person. The physical location is Design Next Studio, Level 5, Ainsworth Building (J17).

For online attendance, the Zoom login details are here on the Thesis A WebCMS3 website (login required)

I look forward to seeing you in the talk. The talk will be recorded and made available.

Reminder: Online workshop on literature search strategy

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 16 September 2024, 08:40:25 AM, last modified Monday 16 September 2024, 08:41:46 AM.

A reminder that the librarian will run two workshops on literature search strategy this week. You can attend any one of them. The times are

• 17th September, 1:30pm-2:30pm
• 20th September, 11:00am-12:00pm

You should aim to complete an online module before attending the workshop. You can find the link to the online module and workshop sessions under Week 0 and Week 2 in the Week-by-week section of the course website.

Thesis Topic Registration

Posted by Jing Hsu Monday 09 September 2024, 01:38:26 PM.

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 personally 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 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

Blog: Your thesis journey and the first part of your Thesis A

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 09 September 2024, 10:07:06 AM, last modified Monday 09 September 2024, 10:09:53 AM.

As I mentioned in my talk in Week 0, I will be using a weekly blog to give you some general hints on doing your thesis. For this week's blog , I use an analogy to help you to imagine your thesis journey and I describe in general terms what you need to do for the first part of Thesis A.

Talk on "How to write a good thesis?" (Week 2)

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Tuesday 03 September 2024, 12:28:10 PM, last modified Tuesday 03 September 2024, 12:29:06 PM.

I am pleased to announce the Thesis talk "How to write a good thesis?" in Week 2. The talk will be given by Prof. Gernot Heiser who is an award winning professor from CSE and his work has been used in billions of devices worldwide.

The talk will be at 1pm, Thur 19 Sept 2024 (Week 2). This is a hybrid seminar. We encourage you to attend in person. The physical location is Design Next Studio, Level 5, Ainsworth Building (J17).

For online attendance, the Zoom login details are here on the Thesis A WebCMS3 website (login required)

I look forward to seeing you in the talk. The talk will be recorded and made available.

Recording of "Introduction to Thesis" talk / Blog (Week 0)

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 02 September 2024, 02:56:42 PM.

You can find the slides and recording of today's talk on "Introduction to Thesis" at Week 0 of the Week-by-week section of the course website .

An important task to get your thesis started is to select a topic. You should visit the Thesis Management System ( https://thesis.cse.unsw.edu.au/ ) to view the available topics and discuss with potential supervisors. We would like to see that you have a topic by Friday of Week 1 at the latest. However, it is best that you have a topic by this week so that you can start working on your thesis from Week 1.

In the "Blog Stream" section of the course website, I gave my thoughts on topic selection and talked about some skills that you can pick up for your thesis before the term gets busy.

Reminder: Thesis A talk today

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 02 September 2024, 07:54:10 AM, last modified Monday 02 September 2024, 07:54:32 AM.

A reminder about the Thesis A talk today (2 Sept 2024):

• I will be giving an online talk on Monday 2 Sept at 1pm on "Introduction 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. The Zoom link is here (login required).The talk will be recorded and will be made available. Note that I have purposely scheduled the talk early in Week 0 so that if you haven't yet settled on the topic, you can get that going in Week 0. I look forward to seeing you online on Monday.

Details of Thesis A are at its website on WebCMS3: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP4951/24T3/

Welcome to Thesis A (24T3)!

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Thursday 29 August 2024, 11:12:35 AM, last modified Thursday 29 August 2024, 11:13:08 AM.

Welcome to Thesis A for 24T3!

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. I am writing to tell you some important information about Thesis A.

• Thesis A does not use Moodle. Its web site is at: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP4951/24T3/ . You will find the course outline, marking criteria and resources to help you to work on your Thesis A.
• If you have not already found a supervisor, please visit the Thesis Management System (TMS) to browse through the thesis topics. You should use the TMS to nominate your thesis topic. Note that you will only be able to log onto TMS from Week 0. However, for the time being, you can browse through the topics in TMS and contact potential supervisors to learn about the projects they are offering.
• I will be giving an online talk on Monday 2 Sept at 1pm on "Introduction 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. The Zoom link is here (login required).The talk will be recorded and will be made available. Note that I have purposely scheduled the talk early in Week 0 so that if you haven't yet settled on the topic, you can get that going in Week 0. I look forward to seeing you online on Monday.