Time and Venue

The weekly KDD Colloquium and Seminar series is held every Thursday at 1600 (4:00 pm) U.S. Central time (UTC-0600 during Central Standard Time, generally November through February, UTC-0500 during Central Daylight Time, generally March through October) during the spring and fall semesters. From 2016 through spring 2020, the venue was 3099A Engineering Hall; during the pandemic (March 2020 - present), the series has been held or simulcast on Zoom, in this channel. The schedule of upcoming talks is listed online, as are past talks (with video recordings where available)

Purpose

For outside speakers, this is a 30-60 minute talk. Please aim for 45-50 minutes to allow time for questions. For group students, this will be a 25-30 minute presentation about your research interests. Practice presentations or encore presentations of conference papers(oral presentations) are most preferred, followed by mock defenses, poster presentations of accepted papers, conference highlights, work in progress, and literature reviews in descending order. If you are presenting someone else's work, you are leading a discussion and it is imperative that you have personally read and fully understood at least one conference paper that you are presenting to the group.

Prepare a Talk

• Select a research topic of interest on which you are working with your supervisor. Research topics in the KDD Lab are organized by division, specifically into areas such as natural language (NL) text and speech, computer vision (CV), reinforcement learning (RL). You can discuss this with Dr. Hsu during one on one meetings or discuss it with your supervisor.
• Prepare a PowerPoint by downloading and using the following Engineering Template. You can choose either horizontal or vertical by your topic.
• The outline of the PowerPoint can be included an introduction, literature review or related research, methodology, results, discussion and conclusion. If you don't have ongoing methodology or results in detail, you can always include ongoing thoughts or expected results or methodology you planned to use. Please discuss with your supervisor or Dr.Hsu if you don't have mature methodology or result section.
• The colloquium talk needs to include lots of diagrams or pictures and the text on the slide can be in short phrases. This can be helpful for the audience who does not involve or research in your area.
• If you have questions about your project as an undergraduate, please contact your supervisor or team lead first and discuss with them what they think of your talk draft. If you are a graduate student, you can contact Dr. Hsu during one on one meetings to ask his opinion.
• As an undergraduate student, you can also present your senior project as a colloquium. For graduate students, you can present your RPE practice round, published paper, proposal or dissertation practice.

Submission

Students are expected to provide a title at the start of the semester and send out the abstract using the standard template two weeks in advance. Message Dr. Hsu privately in Slack (or the #students channel in KSU KDD Lab Main) if you need help with a draft or want it checked over before you mail it to kdd-l@listserv.ksu.edu.

Last updated by bhsu on Apr 23, 2024