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Make an academic webpage! Mention all of your interests, past and current work! Put the URL in your HN profile! That exclamation points are because I care. I j

by scott_s 13y ago

Make an academic webpage! Mention all of your interests, past and current work! Put the URL in your HN profile! That exclamation points are because I care. I just spent ten minutes googling around to find your work. Computer science is nice in that researchers can get jobs in industry, and not just academia. But you have to be discoverable first.

eli_gottlieb 13y ago
Actually, thanks for the pointer, although at this point I don't have any approved publications (that is, publications that have actually made it in somewhere). I'm a rising second-year MSc student, so I've had one paper rejected repeatedly (which I keep revising, because why not), one paper just got submitted last week, and one paper is currently under construction. Can you recommend a tool for building academic webpages? The last time I did web design was making a shitty Pokemon fanpage in the 1990s, so I'm kinda out of date on what to actually do.
- scott_s 13y ago
  But you do have an undergrad thesis. And it's still worth saying what you work on. I'm afraid I'm not aware of any tools for creating academic webpages, but you don't really need one. An academic webpage is really just an online CV. You should say what you interests are, talk about the projects you've worked on (and are working on), papers published (including thesis). Oh, and, of course, how to reach you. A single page should suffice. For my current one, I use WordPress because I want to have a blog, too. You can look at the remnants of my old academic page for structure: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/ http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/ I used to have a h1 for About Me (where I listed interests), publications and projects. How good it looks is secondary. It's just important to get that information up there, easy for people to find. You're actually approaching the time in grad school when industry internships are ideal: you'll be done with classes in a year or two, you've done a research paper or two, but you have a few more years before finishing your dissertation. By the way, having even publications under submission by the second year of doing course work is great progress. Rejections happen. Where did you submit, by the way?

by scott_s 13y ago

eli_gottlieb 13y ago

Actually, thanks for the pointer, although at this point I don't have any approved publications (that is, publications that have actually made it in somewhere). I'm a rising second-year MSc student, so I've had one paper rejected repeatedly (which I keep revising, because why not), one paper just got submitted last week, and one paper is currently under construction. Can you recommend a tool for building academic webpages? The last time I did web design was making a shitty Pokemon fanpage in the 1990s, so I'm kinda out of date on what to actually do.

scott_s 13y ago
But you do have an undergrad thesis. And it's still worth saying what you work on. I'm afraid I'm not aware of any tools for creating academic webpages, but you don't really need one. An academic webpage is really just an online CV. You should say what you interests are, talk about the projects you've worked on (and are working on), papers published (including thesis). Oh, and, of course, how to reach you. A single page should suffice. For my current one, I use WordPress because I want to have a blog, too. You can look at the remnants of my old academic page for structure: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/ http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/ I used to have a h1 for About Me (where I listed interests), publications and projects. How good it looks is secondary. It's just important to get that information up there, easy for people to find. You're actually approaching the time in grad school when industry internships are ideal: you'll be done with classes in a year or two, you've done a research paper or two, but you have a few more years before finishing your dissertation. By the way, having even publications under submission by the second year of doing course work is great progress. Rejections happen. Where did you submit, by the way?