COMP4951 Notices

Notices

  • Attending other students' thesis seminars

    Posted by Chun Tung Chou Wednesday 08 April 2026, 12:26:49 PM.

    Please note that the Seminar tab on the Thesis Management System (TMS) has a listing of the thesis seminars that are taking place this week and next. The listing is there so that you can attend other students' seminar and I would encourage you to do that.

  • Week 8 presentation: In-person to a wider audience

    Posted by Chun Tung Chou Tuesday 31 March 2026, 09:00:03 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 TMS 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

    There are detailed instruction on how to use this new feature on TMS: Under Week-by-week on the course website, choose Week 7, and then "Arrange the Week 8 Presentation".

    You can see a list of seminars under "Seminars" tab on TMS.

    Although we are not making in-person presentation to a wider audience compulsory this term, we strongly encourage you to do it and let us have the information by the end of Week 7.

  • Week 7's blog: Thesis report

    Posted by Chun Tung Chou Sunday 29 March 2026, 11:58:24 PM, last modified Monday 30 March 2026, 07:01:10 AM.

    My apologies that the earlier notice has an incorrect link to the blog stream. The following has the correct link.

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    In this week's blog , I offer some hints on writing the thesis report. Also, this is the last blog for Thesis A.

    I hope the blogs have been useful for your thesis journey.

    All the best with your report.

  • Thesis A Presentation Guide

    Posted by Jing Hsu Tuesday 24 March 2026, 08:35:36 PM.

    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 12th April 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: Structuring your Thesis A presentation

    Posted by Chun Tung Chou Sunday 15 March 2026, 11:23:29 PM, last modified Monday 16 March 2026, 06:32:25 AM.

    In this week's blog , I offer some hints on how to structure your Thesis A presentation. I will take a week off for blogging for the flexibility week. I will write about the Thesis report in Week 7.

  • Week 4's blog: Making plans for Thesis B and Thesis C

    Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 09 March 2026, 12:30:10 AM, last modified Monday 09 March 2026, 07:27:28 AM.

    In this week's blog , I discuss what you should consider when making plans for Thesis B and Thesis C.

  • Week 3's blog: The elements of a literature review

    Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 02 March 2026, 07:32:04 AM, last modified Monday 02 March 2026, 07:33:47 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.

  • 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.

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