Course Notices | COMP4961 25T2

Thesis A Report submission

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Wednesday 13 August 2025, 10:23:29 AM.

A reminder that your Thesis A report is due today (Wed 13 Aug) at 10pm. Submission is to be made via the Thesis Management System (TMS).

Reminder: Submission of your presentation slides

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Sunday 27 July 2025, 10:28:48 AM.

Please be reminded that you need to submit your Thesis A presentation slides to the Thesis Management System by 10pm this Sunday (27 July) ( today! ). If you could not 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.

Presentation schedule

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Friday 18 July 2025, 05:55:44 PM, last modified Friday 18 July 2025, 05:56:31 PM.

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.

Week 7's blog: Thesis report

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 14 July 2025, 09:27:52 AM.

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.

All the best with your report.

Week 8 presentation: In-person to a wider audience

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Thursday 03 July 2025, 05:58:48 PM, last modified Monday 14 July 2025, 09:29:54 AM.

Just a reminder and an encouragement for you on this ...

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We have written to you earlier this 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:

Book a time slot in a room in K17 to do your thesis presentation
Ask us to book a room for you
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 17 July (Week 7) so that we can announce an initial schedule by Friday of Week 7.

Thesis A Presentation Guide

Posted by Jing Hsu Thursday 03 July 2025, 01:33:02 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 27th July 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 Monday 30 June 2025, 08:45:46 AM.

In this week's blog, I have offered some hints on how structuring 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 23 June 2025, 10:38:36 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 16 June 2025, 10:15:50 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 Tuesday 10 June 2025, 06:59:22 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.

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

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 02 June 2025, 10:54:13 AM, last modified Monday 15 September 2025, 04:58:27 PM.

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.

Thesis Topic Registration

Posted by Jing Hsu Sunday 01 June 2025, 04:48:58 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

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

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 26 May 2025, 04:55:14 PM, last modified Monday 26 May 2025, 04:55:37 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 Computer Science Thesis A for 25T2!

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Thursday 22 May 2025, 09:47:39 AM, last modified Thursday 22 May 2025, 09:48:53 AM.

Welcome to Thesis A for 25T2!

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.

Computer Science Thesis A does not use Moodle. Its web site is at: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP4961/25T2/ . 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 26 May 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.

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