CIS 5935 Introductory Seminar on Research, Fall 2018

    COURSE SYLLABUS

Prerequisites:

You should be a graduate student.

Class Schedule:

Activity Day Time Location
Lecture TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM LOVE 0101

Contact Information:

Instructor: Mike Burmester
Office hours: TuTh: 11:00AM - 12:00PM. I am also usually available in my office at other times; feel free to meet me in the afternoons. Alternatively, you may schedule an appointment, either by email or by phone.
Office: 268, Love Building
Phone: 644-6410
Email: burmester AT cs DOT fsu DOT edu

Course Materials:

No required textbook

Course Rationale:

This course introduces you to the important aspects of research. The details associated with formal research and in particular the research done by the Computer Science faculty. This will help you in choosing an adviser and a topic for your PhD dissertation, MS thesis, or MS project. The course will also introduce the ethical principles and responsible conduct of research.

Course Description:

You will primarily listen to faculty talk about their research. You will submit written summaries for four of these talks, and write more detailed reports on the research of two faculty members. You will also take the Responsible Conduct of Research CITI test.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this course, you should be able to accomplish the objectives given below.

Your Responsibilities:

Deadlines and Instructions

Following the same professional guidelines that you will encounter at work, there are strict deadlines, and instructions that must be followed. Please read instructions carefully, and schedule your activities so that you submit assignments on time. You should check the class web page regularly, and note other announcements, on-line and in class.

Class Participation:

You should be in class on time, and leave only after it is over. Otherwise, you will be marked absent. You should also pay attention to the talks presented by faculty, and instructions given by me. You should not disturb the class in any manner, such as by talking to others while the class is going on.

Assignments and the CITI test:

You will have two types of assignments in this course, and a requirement to get an RCR (CITI) certificate. Formatting instructions are available at http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~burmeste/format.html.

  1. Summaries: You should write one-page summaries of at least four of the talks given by faculty members (not Nancy Kellett). You may supplement the material presented at the talk with on-line material from that faculty member's web page, if you wish to. Your written report will be judged both on content and on presentation. In particular, you should have no typographical errors.

    If I mark four of your summary reports as good (graded two points each), then you need not write any more summaries, for this category of assignments (a minimum of eight points is necessary). Hardcopies of the summaries are due at the beginning of the first class in the following week .

  2. Detailed reports: You should also write two detailed reports of the talks given by faculty members (not Nancy Kellett) on whose research you are interested in. The detailed reports should not be on the same professor's talk as the summaries. The main part of each report should be at least 8 pages long. A detailed report should also include information on one or more recent or current research grants obtained by the faculty, its source, and amount, on a separate page. Also, you should give two of the most cited journal articles of the faculty member and two of the most cited conference articles (you can use Google Scholar to find the publications with the most citations and the DBLP Computer Science bibliography website to find if these are journals (red boxes) or conferences (blue boxes). Finally there should be a detailed bibliography, on a separate page. Detailed reports should not be on the same talk as summaries.

    If I mark two of your detailed reports as good (graded four points each), then you need not write any more reports for this category of assignments (a minimum of eight points is necessary). A hardcopy of each report is due on the date mentioned in the course calendar. You should hand it over to me at the begining of class on the due date. This report too will be judged both on content and presentation. If a report is not satisfactory, then you will need to write reports on additional faculty members.

  3. Responsible Conduct of Research: The National Science Foundation (NSF) requires each institution to certify that a plan is in place to provide Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training for postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students. There is an online quiz organized by CITI (Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative) and supported by FSU for RCR. You should complete the Responsible Conduct of Research CITI training test outlined below.

    Instructions for taking the CITI test: Go to the CITI website. Be sure to select only the free training option, and do not agree to pay anything. When you have completed the test, print out the page showing that you have completed the course and give it to me for the files. It is important that we have a copy in case you need it later. The instructions on Blackboard may not completely match CITI, however, you should be able to work your way through it. If you have questions, please let me know. Option 2 is for graduate and undergraduate (and postdoctoral) students, offered by CITI. The CITI online training test requires approximately three to five hours for completion (actually, the average time is around 3 hours). Instructions for registering and taking the CITI test can be found at the following link: The Graduate School, Academics & Research, FSU's CITI Courses.

Course Calendar:

Week Lecture Speaker Assignment
1 28 Aug Mike Burmester -- Introduction to the course Summary (for Duan) due Sep 4
30 Aug Zhendhai Duan -- Computer networks and network security
2 4 Sept Mike Gubanov -- Big Data AI and Mobile Research Summary due Sep 11
6 Sept Peixiang Zhao -- Data Science Research in Big Data Era
3 11 Sept Piyush Kumar -- Learning from Real World Data Summary due Sep 18
13 Sept Mike Burmester -- Challenges of securing the Internet of Things
4 18 Sept Chris Mills (Ph.D. Candidate) -- Searching for and Linking Information in Software Artifacts Summary due Sept 25
20 Sept Class Cancelled
5 25 Sept Esteban Parra Rodriguez (Ph.D. Student) -- Mining Information from Programming Video Tutorials Summary due Oct 2
27 Sept Zhenghao Zhang -- Analog Bloom Filter in Wireless Network
6 2 Oct Xin Yuan -- Toward Optimal Network Connectivity Summary due Oct 9
4 Oct Michael Mascagni -- Reproducibility
7 9 Oct Cancelled Jie Yang -- Mobile Authentication Summary due Oct 16
11 Oct Cancelled Thomas Mikota -- VFX/Animation: Film collaborative projects around Visualization
8 16 Oct Nancy Kellett -- Scholarly Communication & Information Technology, Group 1: Alphabetically (last name, A to J): Ul Alam to Johnson, meet in the Instruction Lab (DSL 208) in Dirac Library Summary due Oct 23
18 Oct Shayok Chakraborty -- Computational models for pattern recognition
9 23 Oct Nancy Kellett -- Scholarly Communication & Information Technology, Group 2: Alphabetically, last name: Karapateas to Woodham, meet in the Instruction Lab (DSL 208) in Dirac Library Summary due Oct 30
25 Oct Sonia Haiduc -- Information Retrieval Applications in Software Engineering
10 30 Oct Andy Wang -- The Composite-file File System: Decoupling the One-to-one Mapping of Files and Metadata for Better Performance Summary due Nov 6
Deadline for detailed reports on talks prior to Oct 30
1 Nov Zhi Wang -- Introduction to Security Research
11 6 Nov Viet Tung Hoang -- Research in Modern Cryptography Summary due Nov 13
8 Nov Jie Yang -- Mobile Authentication Xiuwen Liu --Vision, Cyber Security and Machine Learning
12 13 Nov Sudhir Aggarwal -- TDES: Targeted Data Extraction System
Summary due Nov 20
15 Nov Jiawei Zhang -- Social Network Mining: An Introduction
13 20 Nov Xifeng Gao -- First Steps Toward Black-Box Finite Element Analysis Summary due Nov 27
22 Nov Thanksgiving Day
14 27 Nov Dan Schwartz -- A theory of event possibility with application to vehicle waypoint navigation Summary due Dec 4
29 Nov Thomas Mikota -- VFX/Animation: Film collaborative projects around Visualization
15 4 Dec Xiuwen Liu -- Research Activities at Florida State Deep Learning Group and Laboratory of Cyber Physical Systems Deadline for all reports
6 Dec Mike Burmester -- Course wrap-up -- Deadline for all reports


Link to presentations:

Zhendhai Duan's talk: Computer Networks and Network Security.

Peixiang Zhao's talk: Data Science Research in Big Data Era.

Mike Burmester's talk: Reliable and resilient interdependent systems

Chris Mills' talk: Searching for and Linking Information in Software Artifacts

Esteban Parra Rodriguez' talk: Mining Information from Programming Video Tutorials

Zhenghao Zhang' talk: Analog Bloom Filter in Wireless Network

Xin Yuan's talk: Toward Optimal Network Connectivity

Shayok Chakraborty's talk: Computational models for pattern recognition

Sonia Haiduc's talk: Information Retrieval Applications in Software Engineering

Xiuwen Liu's talk: Research Activities at Florida State Deep Learning Group and Laboratory of Cyber Physical Systems


Grading Criteria:

The grade will be S/U only. You will need to perform satisfactorily in each of the following criteria in order to pass the course.

Record of attendance & completed assignments

.

University Attendance Policy:

The university requires attendance in all classes, and it is also important to your learning. Your attendance record may be provided to deans who request it. You may have ,EM> at most three unexcused absences, if you wish to get a passing grade.

Excused absences include documented illness, deaths in the family and other documented crises, call to active military duty or jury duty, religious holy days, and official University activities. These absences will be accommodated in a way that does not arbitrarily penalize students who have a valid excuse. Consideration will also be given to students whose dependent children experience serious illness. You should let me know in advance, when possible, and submit the documentation I seek.

Late Assignment Policy

In order to encourage you to submit assignments on time we have the following policy regarding late assignments: Note that if you submit an assignment multiple times, only the last submission will be considered for grading.

Professional Ethics

You may not copy material from any source. Furthermore, you should take steps to ensure that others cannot copy work. For example, you should have all permissions on assignment files and directories set off for others.

Plagiarism:

Plagiarism is "representing another's work or any part thereof, be it published or unpublished, as ones own. For example, plagiarism includes failure to use quotation marks or other conventional markings around material quoted from any source" (Florida State University General Bulletin 1998-1999, p. 69). Failure to document material properly, that is, to indicate that the material came from another source, is also considered a form of plagiarism. Copying someone else's program, and turning it in as if it were your own work, is also considered plagiarism.

Academic Honor Policy:

The Florida State University Academic Honor Policy outlines the University's expectations for the integrity of students' academic work, the procedures for resolving alleged violations of those expectations, and the rights and responsibilities of students and faculty members throughout the process. Students are responsible for reading the Academic Honor Policy and for living up to their pledge to "...be honest and truthful and...[to] strive for personal and institutional integrity at Florida State University. (Florida State University Academic Honor Policy, found at http://fda.fsu.edu/academic-resources/academic-integrity-and-grievances/academic-honor-policy/.)

Americans with Disabilities Act:

Students with disabilities needing academic accommodation should (1) register with and provide documentation to the Student Disability Center, and (2) bring a letter to the instructor indicating the need for accommodation and what type. This should be done during the first week of class. For more information about services available to FSU students with disabilities, contact:

Student Disability Resource Center
Dean of Students Department
97 Woodward Avenue, South
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4167
(850) 644-9566 (voice)
(850) 644-8504 (TDD)
sdrc@admin.fsu.edu
http://www.fsu.edu/~staffair/dean/StudentDisability/

This syllabus and other class materials will be made available in alternative format upon request.

Syllabus Change Policy:

This syllabus is a guide for the course and is subject to change with advanced notice.

Last modified: 8/24/2018