WING Meeting

KAN Min-Yen

28 Dec 2012

Min-Yen Kan

Printing• Banner pages are not counted against your quota• Printing double sided incurs only 75% of your

printing quota• E.g. 12 single sided pages printed double sided

incurs 8 pages of your quota• There is no command line option or printer queue

that does not invoke the banner. –We can disable banner sheets for research printers if everyone in a lab unanimously agrees to it.

–https://docs.comp.nus.edu.sg/node/1497

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RA/RS Arrangements• Scholarships from NExT / CSIDM (Centres) are

actually drawn from the general pool for PhD funding

• This means when your 4 years are up, you no longer have scholarship

• Often you can get 6 months’ of tuition waiver• Also converting to support via RA/TA or p/t RA/TA

incurs give you salary (~3K per month)–But then you have to pay the tuition fees (~2K per term?)

–As staff you can apply for tuition fee reduction. But you may not get it as it nominally applies to staff working 1 year or longer

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Internships• Internships of 3-6 months usually don’t stop your RS

(stipend), unless you apply to have it stopped.• Internships do count against your maximum candidature of

5 years.–You can apply to extend your maximum candidature for one semester but beyond that is difficult–School is under pressure to have you graduate too

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Conclusion• When you’re an early RS, save up your money to hold

against your fifth year.• When you’re interning, try to negotiate some stipend, and

think about whether you want to have your stipend stopped.

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Research TopicsGraduate Students• Jin Zhao – Domain Specifc IR• Jesse Gozali – Photo-taking Behavior • Jun Ping Ng – Temporal Relationship Identification • Aobo Wang – Informal Chinese Language Processing• Jovian Lin – Recommendation Systems for Mobile Applications• Tao Chen – Topics in Weibo• Xiangnan He – Topics in Web 2.0• Bamdad Bahrani – Slide Alignment• Muthu Kumar – NUS Co-author analysis

Research Staff

• Kazunari Sugiyama – Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries

• Ning Fang – Assistant (NExT)

• Dongyuan Lu – Assistant (CSIDM)

• Haochen Zhang, Yushi Wang – SANDS and Identity Linkage (NExT)

• Yiping Jin – Term and Definition Extraction

• Sudhanshu Khemka – GPU-based LM IR

• Eric Yulianto – Citation Function Classification

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WING, NUS

DLIR/MM/HCINLP

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To Do’s for WING• Physical Lab Cleaning

Day–1st week of January– Do AS6 (CL lab, then Industry Lab) first– Do NExT lab in I3 later

• Update your projects and home page day– 2nd week of January

• Reassign PhD responsibilities– Browse the Google Doc and check your current responsibilities– Decide what responsibilities you want next round