Career

This chapter is based on the notes 2022-05-24_SPSE_Rankings.pdf

Selecting a research topic

• What interests me?

• What motivates me?

• What am I good at, what do I have a vocation for? (“sich berufen fuehlen”)

• Strengths vs. weaknesses, skills

• With who do I want to/can I work?

Questions to the Professor:

• Why this Job?

• How does a research group work?

  • “family”

  • “liking each other”

  • “Doktormutter”

  • mentor

Identifying Research Areas

• Structure, Divide and Conquer

• Theory vs. Practice

But what is Computer Science?

1. look at publications

2. create research clusters

   • list of computer scientists

   • list of their publication venues

3. Invent cluster names (e.g., collect and sort words that appear in conference names)

4. Rank topics (– which rankings?)