COMP4951 Notices

Week 2's blog: searching and reading technical papers

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 23 February 2026, 06:48:11 AM, last modified Monday 23 February 2026, 06:48:37 AM.

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.

Thesis Topic Registration

Posted by Jing Hsu Monday 16 February 2026, 10:19:33 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 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

Week 1's blog: Your thesis journey and the first part of your Thesis A

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 16 February 2026, 06:42:45 AM, last modified Wednesday 18 February 2026, 08:25:19 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.

Wishing you a good start for your Thesis A.

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

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 09 February 2026, 03:12:18 PM, last modified Monday 09 February 2026, 03:13:07 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.

Welcome to Research Thesis A for 26T1!

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Thursday 05 February 2026, 09:49:39 AM, last modified Monday 09 February 2026, 07:52:52 AM.

Welcome to Thesis A for 26T1!

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

• Research Thesis A does not use Moodle. Its web site is at: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP4951/26T1/ . 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 9 Feb 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 (WebCMS3 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.