How to Write and Publish Research Papers

Speaker:        Professor Charles X. Ling
                Department of Computer Science
                University of Western Ontario
                Canada

Title:          "How to Write and Publish Research Papers"

Date:           Tuesday, 24 February 2004

Time:           4:30pm - 5:30pm

Venue:          Room 2303 (Phase I, via lift nos. 17/18)
                HKUST

ABSTRACT:

Chinese researchers (including MSc/PhD students and some professors) often
encounter great difficulties in writing and publishing research papers in
competitive international conferences (such as IJCAI) and journals. How
can we quickly improve our paper writing skills? How can we avoid the most
typical mistakes? Why do reviewers reject your papers? I will try to
answer these questions in this talk.

I was first invited to give this talk to Microsoft Research China in 2000,
and to many universities in China since then. Other related talks given
include "How to Conduct Research" and "From Research Ideas to PhD Thesis".
Some of these talks were given jointly with Dr. Qiang Yang at HKUST.



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Biography:

Professor Charles X. Ling earned his Msc and PhD from the Department of
Computer Science at Univ of Pennsylvania (Ivy League) in 1987 and 1989
respectively. Since then he has been a faculty member in Computer Science
at University of Western Ontario, and Adjunct Professor at University of
Waterloo. See http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/cling for more info.
His main research areas include machine learning (theory, algorithms, and
applications), cognitive modeling, and AI in general. He has published
over 60 research papers in journals (such as Machine Learning, Journal of
Artificial Intelligence Research, and Cognition) and international
conferences (such as 5 IJCAI papers and 4 ICML papers). He is also the
Director of Data Mining Lab, leading data mining development in CRM,
Bioinformatics, and the Internet. He has managed several data-mining
projects for major banks and insurance companies in Canada.