Computer Science Thesis A COMP4961 26T1

Week 2's blog: searching and reading technical papers

Posted by Chun Tung Chou Monday 23 February 2026, 06:47:08 AM, last modified Monday 23 February 2026, 06:48:23 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, 10:19:50 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, 06:43:26 AM, last modified Wednesday 18 February 2026, 08:25:56 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.