Semester Projects

Instructions and examples for Semester Projects at EURECOM

Report

• Share your report and slides since they are in progress, so that we can comment on them.
  • This will give you the possibility to improve them BEFORE the defense, to have a better grade.
  • Use shared drives! Attaching documents to emails is a bad practice for storage and environmental reasons.
• Cite properly figures and text coming from other works in both slides and report.
  • In the report, it would be better to have a proper reference section at the end, and refers to papers using numbers (e.g. [1]) or authors' names and year (e.g. (Grover et al, 2016)).
  • The references should precisely mention authors' names, title, publication venue, year. Example:

  A. Grover and J. Leskovec. node2vec: Scalable Feature Learning for Networks.  In: ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2016.
  

  • If you are using LaTex, the best option is to use a bibfile, including the bib record directly downloaded from the journal website (e.g. look at the Export citation option on any ACM paper)
• Use your own words as much as you can.
  • Including some sentences coming from other works is allowed (with moderation) if properly referenced
  • Copying a sentence and putting synonyms here and there... it is still copying.
  • Copying is bad! Referencing is good!
• Your report should include all relevant links to your project results: Google Drive folders, Git repositories, Colab notebooks, etc.
• Make clear what your contribution is.
  • If you replicate a paper, make clear what are your ideas and what are original authors' ones.

Presentation

• The presentation should last 30 minutes and is followed by a round of questions.
• Be didactical. The audience may not be familiar with your project and with the topic you studied. Be sure to define precisely all specific terms.
• Add slides number. They will help who is listening to you to make precise questions during the defense.
• Cite properly figures and text coming from other works in both slides and report.
  • On slides, it is ok to have a shorter reference, e.g. A. Grover et al. node2vec: Scalable Feature Learning for Networks. KDD, 2016
• Rehearse your presentation before, for checking the time and the expressions that you use. Change the presentation to serve your speech.
• Avoid to go on and back on the slides, instead structure them in order to have a linear storyline.