Frequently Asked Questions

To start with: do not think that you will write a paper in one shot. Writing is a process, and has to be done in phases. There are three main phases of writing, i) Outlining, ii) Drafting, and iii) Editing.

Outlining: Outlining is the phase when you write in bullets. You do not need to write complete sentences, just phrases are enough. The idea is to write bullets about what you are going to write. Try and fix the structure of the paper, write down the sections and subsections, but inside them there are no sentences, just bullets. Your arguments, and the flow of the arguments are the main thing that you are trying to fix. Once you have a version of the outline, then we iterate on the outline and refine it, until the story is set. It is must easier to iterate on outline, rather than writing, because i) outline is smaller, so you can see and think about all of it at once, and ii) fixing it is much easier than fixing writing.

Drafting: Once the outline is set, then start converting bullets in paragraphs, and complete sentences. We iterate on draft, so that the idea is conveyed as accurately as possible.

Editing: Editing is the phase of going over your final draft, and fixing grammatical and sentence construction errors.

As you can see, the most important phase in technical writing is the outlining phase. Once that is fixed, rest is pretty fast.

Write your review in 3 sections: 1. Summary of the paper in your words. 2. The plus points of the paper. 3. Concerns about the paper. 4. Evaluate the paper (on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the best).

Writing the plus points of a well-written paper is usually easy since that is the author’s primary job. If you are finding this hard, then the paper is clearly bad!

Spend your time in finding all the holes in the paper. There can be several shortcomings in the paper. Categorize them in major and minor concerns: Examples of major concerns: 1. Are assumptions wrong/unrealistic? 2. Fair comparison against the latest related work? 3. Not discussed all the relevant related work? 4. State the contributions of the paper clearly? 5. Experiments must prove their contribution, not something else 6. Is the problem important, or made up?

Examples of minor concerns: 1. Spelling mistakes 2. Grammar 3. Writing style

Corporate Research Programs

NVIDIA Academic Grant Program – Submit Anytime

Samsung Research Collaboration Program (SRP) – Feb

Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) Collaboration – Aug

Google Academic Research Awards (GARA) – July

IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Program – July

Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship – Deadline TBA

External Fellowships & Scholarships

Quad Fellowship – March 3, 2025

Chateaubriand Fellowship Program – January

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship – October

ACI Foundation Fellowships & Scholarships – November

John Ries Scholarship (ESCSI) – Deadline TBA

ASA Fellowships & Grants – Varies (check site)

Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research (GIAR) – March (Spring) / October (Fall)

Link Foundation Modeling, Simulation, and Training Fellowship – February

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Please visit https://cfo.asu.edu/payroll or call on (480) 965-3601. ASU payroll is located at USB building.

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Once, you have activated your site and reach to the MyFiles as described into the tutorial, follow the steps below – 1. You will see Folders Section in MyFiles. Locate www folder and click on it. 2. Now you have reached the place where you can manage file and folders, related to your public webpage. 3. Access your public site using http://www.public.asu.edu/~ASURITE where ASURITE is your ASURITE user name. 4. You will see that you can manage homepage of your public webpage using index.html, inside www folder. Publicwebsetup.html is for future reference. You can always access it through http://www.public.asu.edu/~ASURITE/publicwebsetup.html. By default, index.html and publicwebsetup.html will be the same. 5. Modify index.html and add/remove files to the filespace into www folder. Have a decent public webpage. Good Luck!

ASU Awards, Scholarships, and Fellowships

Graduate College Fellowships and Awards

Fellowships and Scholarships from Ira A. Fultons Schools of Engineering

ASU Master’s Opportunity for Research in Engineering (MORE)

ASU Summer Research Internships (SURI)

ASU Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI)

Fellowship list from ASU School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI)

ASU Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) Awards

ASU Scholarships Portal

External lists of Fellowship Applications

List from UMD CS

List from CMU CS

List from Caltech Grad Students Office

List from FAU Grad College

ASU Resources

GPSA Travel Grant – Travel Grants | Educational Outreach and Student Services

Graduate College Travel Grant – Travel Awards | Graduate College

SCAI Travel Grant – SCAI Conference Funding Application (Available only to Ph.D. students)

Usually, the organizations holding the conferences also provide travel grants, but this is not guaranteed to all conferences.

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I have developed my core foundation in Computer Vision and AI, which presented opportunities for research and solution development in industrial settings, particularly with Siemens. Balancing technical work with a commitment to my education, my path has evolved from organizing and instructing in learning programs to contributing to corporate roles in a research capacity, focusing on practical applications and collaborative growth in Computer Vision and AI.

I am currently working on building a deeper understanding of Vision Transformers and their applications in Machine Learning Accelerator and Intelligent Traffic management settings.

I aim to pursue an Applied research role with an aptitude for Full-Stack Deep Learning.

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