PhD Perspectives after EMCL. Evgeny Kharlamov PhD Candidate, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano EMCL 09 Workshop, Madrid

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1 PhD Perspectives after EMCL Evgeny Kharlamov PhD Candidate, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano EMCL 09 Workshop, Madrid

2 Road Map PhD generals What PhD is a about? How to choose a PhD program? PhD and the EMCL consortium How EMCL helps to find a program Doing a PhD with an EMCL university 2

3 What PhD is about? There are lots of literature on this topic books, papers, web pages,.. 3

4 Who is a PhD Student? PhD student is NOT a student is a journeyman / a candidate 4

5 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

6 What PhD is About? PhD is about making yourself ready to survive in research related business business = doing research, celling research, collaborating in a research lab or company 5

7 2Be or not 2Be? PhD is an entry point to research, academic teaching, and serious companies PhD is the highest university degree Stable income for 3-5 years International environment You will see the world... a bit 6

8 2Be or not 2Be? Getting a PhD is 3-5 years of the most productive time in your life Think twice whether you need it! 7

9 2.How to choose a PhD program? 8

10 Main Criteria Choice is right iff PhD is successful 1. Choose the right research environment 2. Choose the right supervisor 3. Choose the right topic 4. Choose a place to live for 3-5 years 9

11 Take it Seriously! 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 EMCL = Enough knowledge about 5 EMCL Unis 10

12 Road Map PhD generals What PhD is a about? How to choose a PhD program? PhD and the EMCL consortium How EMCL helps to find a program Doing a PhD with an EMCL university 11

13 3. EMCL Opportunities 12

14 EMCL Opportunities An infrastructure to search for a PhD program: Inside EMCL: FUB, TUD, UNL, UPM, TUW Outside EMCL: the rest of the world 13

15 Search Inside EMCL You spend 2 years with EMCL universities you can check them all Talk to PhD candidates, researchers to check: environment projects people 14

16 EMCL Unis are Good!! Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in top class of Italian Universities in CS, first among small, national rating Dresden University of Technology among top 5 German Universities in CS (in terms of infrastructure), DAAD New University of Lisbon in top 3 Portuguese Universities in CS, national rating Technical University of Madrid in top 3 Spanish Universities in CS, national rating Vienna Technical University #8 European Technology University, Times Ranking 15

17 Search Outside EMCL Be Active Participate in events: summer schools conferences workshops Make personal contacts 16

18 Pay Attention to... Conference websites to learn about: top researchers top research centers hot research topics Mailing lists (Semantic_Web, Dbworld) 17

19 Pay Attention to... People that attend the events: talk to professors, students Learn from them good research centers openings of PhD position interesting research topic 18

20 Possible Events Summer schools: Ontological Engineering and The Semantic Web - 09 Madrid Reasoning Web - 09, Bolzano CL and Cognitive Science - 08 Dresden... Conferences and Workshops: Temporal Representation and Reasoning - 09 Bolzano International World Wide Web Conference - 09 Madrid Description Logic Workshop - 08 Dresden... 19

21 4. How I used EMCL Opportunities 20

22 How I Searched for a PhD Program Summer Schools Logic-based Knowledge Representation - TU Dresden 05 Logical Aspects of Secure Computer Systems - TU Munich 05 BIT Summer School - FU Bolzano 06 Data Integration and Exchange, Uni Roma 06 Conferences and Workshops Asian Logic Conference - Novosibirsk SU 05 Data Integration and Exchange Workshop - FU Bolzano 06 21

23 How I chose FUB 1. Choose the right research environment Pleasant team to work in High quality research is done there Good facilities for PhDs 22

24 Cool Profs from FUB 23

25 Cool PhD Candidates from FUB 24

26 How I chose FUB 2. Choose the right supervisor Works with PhDs in the way you like Will satisfy your ambitions Has research interests that you like 25

27 How I chose FUB 3. Choose the right topic Next Section 26

28 How I chose FUB 4. Choose a place to live for 3-5 years 27

29 I just like Bolzano... 28

30 I just like Bolzano... 29

31 I just like Bolzano... 30

32 To Summarize EMLC provides funds and infrastructure to look for a good PhD position EMCL members are good candidates for doing PhD 31

33 5. And what is after the (Ph)D-Day? 32

34 First Year, 2007 Searched for a PhD a topic Took courses Attended summer schools Went to conferences Topic: Incompleteness in Data Integration 33

35 First Year, Summer Schools: Logic and Language, Dublin & Database Technologies, Bolzano 2 Conferences: Very Large Databases, Vienna & DL workshop, Bolzano 3 Talks: EMCL Workshop, Bolzano & DL Workshop, Bolzano & FUB Seminars Paper: DL Workshop, Bolzano Teaching: Foundations of Databases, FUB 34

36 Second Year, 2008 Progressed in research and found an internship Did lots of research in Bolzano Went to conferences 2 Publications & Internship 35

37 Second Year, Papers: VLDB workshop & ONISW workshop 3 Conferences: VLDB, Auckland & EDBT, Nantes & LID, Rome 4 Talks: VLDB, Auckland & INRIA, Paris & EMCL WS, Lisbon & FUB Seminars Internship: Dec 08 - June 09, Gemo, INRIA Saclay, Paris Topics: Probabilistic XML and Active XML 36

38 Third Year, 2009 Progress in research and writing papers To finish the internship To publish all the results we got To attend 3-4 conferences / workshops To attend one summer school 37

39 Fourth Year, 2010 Finalizing research Writing papers, thesis Job hunting 38

40 To Summarize Again EMLC provides funds and infrastructure to look for a good PhD position EMCL members are good candidate places for doing the PhD PhD with an EMCL partner can be productive and enjoyable 39

41 Talk to us, us, visit us!!!