research-advice-list

A compilation of research advice(s) for doing good research and writing good papers.

Contributions via issues and pull requests are welcome.

Doing Research:

1. You and Your Research by Richard Hamming, 1986

2. Principles of Effective Research by Michael Neilsen, 2004

3. De-Mystifying Good Research by Fei Fei Li, 2009

4. How to do Good Research, get it Published in SIGKDD, get it Cited by Eamonn Keogh, 2009

5. How to do Research by Bill Freeman, 2013

6. An Opiniated Guide to ML Research by John Schulman, 2020

Writing Research Papers

1. How NOT to review a paper The tools and techniques of the adversarial reviewer by Graham Cormode, 2008

2. How to do Good Research, get it Published in SIGKDD, get it Cited (see from slide 68 onwards) by Eamonn Keogh, 2009

3. How to write a good CVPR submission by Bill Freeman, 2014

4. How to write a great research paper, Seven simple suggestions by Simon Peyton Jones, 2015

5. How to write introduction of a research paper in three easy steps by Kate Saenko, 2021

LaTeX Writing Tips

1. Style by Jordan Boyd-Graber, 2020

Presenting Research Papers:

1. How to give a great research talk by Simon Peyton Jones, 2016

2. Tips for preparing a clear talk by Kristen Grauman, 2018

General Grad Student Advice:

1. Elements of a Successful Graduate Career by Bill Freeman, 2013

2. Survival Guide to a PhD by Andrej Karpathy, 2016

Reviewing Paper:

1. How to be a Good Reviewer by Jordi Pont-Tuset, 2020

Meta-List:

This is a compilation of compilations (can we go deeper?) about similar topics:

1. Useful Computer Vision PhD Resources by Yana Hassony

2. Grad School Resources by Kalpesh Krishna

3. Good Citizen of CVPR organized by Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra at CVPR18