Doing PhD and EMCL Opportunities. Evgeny Kharlamov PhD Candidate, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano EMCL 08 Workshop

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1 Doing PhD and EMCL Opportunities Evgeny Kharlamov PhD Candidate, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano EMCL 08 Workshop

2 Road Map Doing PhD...? What PhD is about? How to choose a PhD program?... EMCL opportunities EMCL opportunities to search for PhD programs and how I used them EMCL opportunities to do PhD and how my friends use them 2

3 1.What PhD is about? 3

4 Doing PhD...? There is lots of literature on this topic books, papers, web pages,... 4

5 Doing PhD...? There is lots of literature on this topic books, papers, web pages,... 4

6 What PhD is About? Mastering independent research via doing research projects Mastering selling your results via writing papers, reports via presentations Making your network via collaborations summer schools, conferences, etc. 5

7 What PhD is About? PhD is about making yourself ready to survive in research related business 5

8 PhD is... not for everybody - like music or medicine a lot of work and less money than in industry 3-5 years of the most productive period of your life 6

9 PhD is... Think carefully whether you need it! not for everybody - like music or medicine a lot of work and less money than in industry 3-5 years of the most productive period of your life 6

10 Advantages of PhD Entry point to research and academic teaching PhD is the highest university degree Stable income for 3-5 years International environment You will see the world... a bit 7

11 Advantages of PhD Entry point to research and academic teaching PhD is the highest university degree Stable income for 3-5 years International environment You will see the world... a bit 7

12 2.How to choose a PhD program? 8

13 Where to Go for PhD? 1. Choose the right research environment 2. Choose the right supervisor 3. Choose the right topic 9

14 Where to Go for PhD? Choice is right iff PhD is successful 1. Choose the right research environment 2. Choose the right supervisor 3. Choose the right topic 9

15 Where to Go for PhD? Wrong choice is painful PhD is 3-5 years; its hard to change program 10

16 Where to Go for PhD? Wrong choice is painful PhD is 3-5 years; its hard to change program PhD program via reading web pages = Spouse via reading Facebook profile 10

17 Where to Go for PhD? Wrong choice is painful PhD is 3-5 years; its hard to change program PhD program via reading web pages = Spouse via reading Facebook profile 2 years in EMCLC = Enough knowledge about 5 Unis of EMCL 10

18 Road Map Doing PhD...? What PhD is about? How to choose a PhD program?... EMCL opportunities EMCL opportunities to search for PhD programs and how I used them EMCL opportunities to do PhD and how my friends use them 11

19 Road Map... EMCL opportunities EMCL opportunities to search for PhD programs and how I used them EMCL opportunities to do PhD and how my friends use them 11

20 Road Map 3.EMCL opportunities to search for PhD programs and how I used them 11

21 Search Strategies Classes, papers and conference websites to learn about top researches, research centers hot research topics Summer schools and Conferences to communicate with top researches to learn about PhDs in different places to learn about hot research topics 12

22 Search Strategies Classes, papers and conference websites to learn about top researches, research centers hot research topics Summer schools and Conferences to communicate with top researches to learn about PhDs in different places to learn about hot research topics 12

23 Search Strategies Classes, papers and conference websites to learn about top researches, research centers hot research topics Summer schools and Conferences to communicate with top researches to learn about PhDs in different places to learn about hot research topics 12

24 Search Strategies Classes, papers and conference websites to learn about top researches, research centers hot research topics Summer schools and Conferences to communicate with top researches to learn about PhDs in different places to learn about hot research topics 12

25 Checking Yourself The best ways to see whether you are compatible with PhD: Project Thesis 13

26 Checking Yourself The best ways to see whether you are compatible with PhD: Project Thesis 13

27 Why I chose FUB? 1. Choose the right research environment Pleasant team to work in High quality research is done there Good facilities for PhDs 14

28 Why I chose FUB? 1. Choose the right research environment Pleasant team to work in High quality research is done there Good facilities for PhDs 14

29 Why I chose FUB? 1. Choose the right research environment Pleasant team to work in High quality research is done there Good facilities for PhDs 14

30 Why I chose FUB? 1. Choose the right research environment Pleasant team to work in High quality research is done there Good facilities for PhDs 14

31 Why I chose FUB? 1. Choose the right research environment Pleasant team to work in High quality research is done there Good facilities for PhDs 14

32 Why I chose FUB? 2. Choose a right supervisor Works with PhDs in a way you like Will satisfy your ambitions Has research interests that you like 15

33 Why I chose FUB? 2. Choose a right supervisor Works with PhDs in a way you like Will satisfy your ambitions Has research interests that you like 15

34 Why I chose FUB? 3. Choose the right topic A long story... 16

35 To Summaries EMLC provides funds and infrastructure to find the right PhD EMCL members are good candidates for doing PhD 17

36 4. And what is after the Ph D-Day? 18

37 Serious FUB PhDs 19

38 Serious FUB PhDs Vlad Lina 19

39 Serious FUB PhDs Vlad Lina 19

40 Stories About Vlad Supervisor: Alessandro Artale Collaborator: Zakharyaschev, Kontchakov 20

41 Stories About Vlad Reearch areas: Description Logic, Tmporal Logics, ER modelling 20

42 Stories About Vlad DL07 Workshop ER 07: Reasoning over extended ER 20

43 Stories About Vlad Attended: Bertinoro 06, ACAI 07, ESSLLII 06, 07, EDBT 07, KR 07 20

44 Stories About Vlad 6 month in Birkbeck Colledge Crazy about climbing, hiking, languages 20

45 Stories About Lina Supervisor: Sergio Tessaris Collaborators: Franconi, Rodriguez, Calvanese 21

46 Stories About Lina EMCL history: Bolzano, Madrid 21

47 Stories About Lina Reearch areas: Ontology based or knowledge mediated data acceess 21

48 Stories About Lina Project 1: System to extract ontologies from RDBs Published: DL 07 21

49 Stories About Lina Project 2: Integration of the System with Protege plug-in of R. and C. Published: EEIIMAS workshop, EDBT08 21

50 Stories About Lina Project 3: PhD proposal Published, presented at ACM CIKM in

51 Stories About Lina Attended: ACAI 07, ESSLLI 07, EDBT 07, CIKM 07, VLDB 07, DL 07 21

52 Stories About Lina Rents an apartment with a boyfriend Crazy about Argentinean Tango Likes: climbing, hiking, cooking 21

53 To Summaries Again EMLC provides funds and infrastructure to find the right PhD EMCL members are good candidates for doing PhD PhD at an EMCL partner can be productive and enjoyable 22

54 thank you!