[!IMPORTANT] This guide was strictly for the students of Summer 2023 Semester. For students of Fall 2023, the link is here.

Welcome to the course! The course is designed to help you immerse yourself in the topic in depth and develop an interest in learning more about it. You will conduct research on this topic and write a research paper on it. You can even publish that research paper so the world can read your great research! We’ll come back to that later.

The course consists of 7 submissions and 2 bonus submissions. If you are able to complete them within the deadline, they will be very easy and enjoyable. However, if you try to finish them in the last week of the semester, they might be very stressful. Let’s learn about each submissions. You will be able to get detailed info from the course spreadsheet, but I think it could be a supplementary guide for the submissions. Completing all 7 submissions will lead to you submitting a research paper in a conference for publishing.

Things to do before the submissions

• Create a GitHub Repository naming your course code e.g. CSE707. In case if you are not familiar with Github, you can either watch Youtube, or use my GitHub template repository to make one for you.
• Create a YouTube Playlist naming your course code e.g. CSE707. You must make sure the playlist is not public, but unlisted.
• Create an Overleaf account if you don’t have any.
• [Optional] It is very much appreciable to go with your own pace and learn more things out of the class. You can start a course on Coursera, Udemy or any other platform about the topic to learn which will help you later for bonus. Here is a list of sites with Free courses with certificates.
• Form a team and write the info in Course Spreadsheet.

Team Forming

Maximum number of members in team will be announced in the class and can also be seen in Course Spreadsheet. You will be assigned an ST and a RA to help you guide the project, provide feedback and help you in this course. Approach any of them using Slack/discord and join their consultation if necessary. You would find the name of your assigned ST and RA in the rightmost cells of the team rows. You guys can select them yourself, just check the names in the rightmost cells. It would be like the following:

Along with your assigned ST & RA, you can consult any ST & RA from the course if you need additional help. You can select any team number you want to and after you have filled up your information in the team rows, join that team text channel in Slack. Click on All Channels on Slack or Search your team number, like if you are team 3, you can search #team-03. Join that channel. Make sure you are not joined in any other’s team channel. You must join the team channel according to your team number in Course Spreadsheet.

Submission 1

Select a tentative topic which you plan to research on and plan an outline of it with the idea. You can change the topic later while you go through the submissions but do not worry about it now. Create a Google Slide which should contain, an Introduction, slides regarding the topic, related research, challenges, what you plan to do and conclusion. All the slides must have page numbers.

Now present the slide by screen recording it. Then, upload the presentation video in YouTube making it unlisted in privacy settings. Then add the video in the Unlisted YouTube playlist we made earlier.

Create a Overleaf Project with any Paper template from IEEE, ACM, or Springer. Go to your newly created project, click on share and add Annajiat sir as a collaborator. The email to invite is [email protected]. Then turn on Link Sharing, and send the “Anyone with this link can edit this project” link to your assigned ST & RA via Slack mentioning your team number.

Use the Submission Helper to generate the text for GitHub with all the required information. Create a folder named submission1 in your repository and make a text file named README.txt. Then paste the generated text in the GitHub and copy the link of your folder.

Now update your Course Spreadsheet Task 1 cell with the given sample. It should contain GitHub, Project Title & Overleaf Link. After that submit it in Google Form as well and you are done with your first submission of the course.

Submission 2 (Individual Submission)

While all other submissions to be submitted in team, Submission 2 will be submitted individually. Remember the topic you selected in Submission 1? Now you need find one research paper related to that topic topic which published after 2021 and must not be selected by any other members as well. Create a Google Slide covering the whole research paper concept. All the slides must have page numbers.

Now present the slide by screen recording it. Then, upload the presentation video in YouTube making it unlisted in privacy settings. Then add the video in the Unlisted YouTube playlist we made earlier.

Use the Submission Helper to generate the text for GitHub with all the required information. Create a folder named submission2 in your repository and make a text file named README.txt. Then paste the generated text in the GitHub and copy the link of your folder. Upload the research paper PDF in the same folder.

Now update your Course Spreadsheet Task 2 cell with the given sample. After that submit it in Google Form as well.

Submission 3

In the Course Spreadsheet, there is a sheet named Booked Chapters. You would find the list of chapters of books related the course. Then there is a cell to write you group number to mark it as yours. Book the chapter by writing your group number. Read the chapter you booked and make a Concept Map of the chapter. To make the concept map, you can use, draw.io, Lucid, or Miro. You can use any as long as you can export PDF of your concept map from them without paying.

Now present the concept map by screen recording it. Then, upload the presentation video in YouTube making it unlisted in privacy settings. Then add the video in the Unlisted YouTube playlist we made earlier.

Use the Submission Helper to generate the text for GitHub with all the required information. Create a folder named submission3 in your repository and make a text file named README.txt. Then paste the generated text in the GitHub and copy the link of your folder. Upload the concept map PDF in the same folder.

Now update your Course Spreadsheet Task 3 cell with the given sample. After that submit it in Google Form as well.

Submission 4

We will start working on our research project from this submission. Find a suitable title for your research project, write abstract of it. Also complete the Introduction and the initial literature review of your research. Then plan the methodologies and give a brief description of them. Basically complete the 1st draft of your research paper in the Overleaf Project we opened in Submission 1. Also consult your assigned ST & RA frequently about your research and they will be glad to help you.

Now present the first draft of your research paper by screen recording it. You can either make a Google Slide or present the paper from overleaf directly, any of them works. Then, upload the presentation video in YouTube making it unlisted in privacy settings. Then add the video in the Unlisted YouTube playlist we made earlier.

Use the Submission Helper to generate the text for GitHub with all the required information. Create a folder named submission4 in your repository and make a text file named README.txt. Then paste the generated text in the GitHub and copy the link of your folder. Upload the 1st Draft PDF in the same folder.

Now update your Course Spreadsheet Task 4 cell with the given sample. After that submit it in Google Form as well.

Submission 5

Identical to Submission 4, but you must finish your 2nd draft. You should complete 75% of your research paper within then in the Overleaf Project.

Now present the second draft of your research paper by screen recording it. You can either make a Google Slide or present the paper from overleaf directly, any of them works. Then, upload the presentation video in YouTube making it unlisted in privacy settings. Then add the video in the Unlisted YouTube playlist we made earlier.

Use the Submission Helper to generate the text for GitHub with all the required information. Create a folder named submission5 in your repository and make a text file named README.txt. Then paste the generated text in the GitHub and copy the link of your folder. Upload the 2nd Draft PDF in the same folder.

Now update your Course Spreadsheet Task 5 cell with the given sample. After that submit it in Google Form as well.

Submission 6

Identical to Submission 4 & 5, but you must finish your full research paper within then.

Now present the research paper by screen recording it. You can either make a Google Slide or present the paper from overleaf directly, any of them works. Then, upload the presentation video in YouTube making it unlisted in privacy settings. Then add the video in the Unlisted YouTube playlist we made earlier.

Use the Submission Helper to generate the text for GitHub with all the required information. Create a folder named submission6 in your repository and make a text file named README.txt. Then paste the generated text in the GitHub and copy the link of your folder. Upload the Final PDF in the same folder.

Now update your Course Spreadsheet Task 6 cell with the given sample, some fields must be filled after you complete submission 7 so keep those empty. After that submit it in Google Form as well.

Submission 7

This submission will require you to submit your research paper to a conference in order to publish it. Find a suitable conference for you from Paper Submission Venues. You can also submit in any other conference as well but make sure the conference is well-known/reputable and high ranked. You must take feedback from your ST & RA and incorporate the changes if necessary before you can submit in the conference.

Most of the conference asks to hide the author section for Blind Checking Policy so make sure to do that. Just comment out the author section with ctrl+/.

After you submit it in the conference you would be given a mail and a Paper submission ID. Print the mail as PDF or take a screenshot of it and upload that in GitHub after you create a folder named submission7 in your repository.

Use the Submission Helper to generate the text for GitHub with all the required information. Make a text file named README.txt in the folder. Then paste the generated text in the GitHub and copy the link of your folder. Upload the Final PDF in the same folder.

Now submit it in Google Form as well and fill the fields you kept empty in Task 6 cell that time.

Submission 8 (Team Bonus)

Complete another research paper with project and submit it in a conference as well. You must take feedback from your ST & RA and incorporate the changes if necessary before you can submit in the conference.

Now present the research paper by screen recording it. You can either make a Google Slide or present the paper from overleaf directly, any of them works. Then, upload the presentation video in YouTube making it unlisted in privacy settings. Then add the video in the Unlisted YouTube playlist we made earlier.

After you submit it in the conference you would be given a mail and a Paper submission ID. Print the mail as PDF or take a screenshot of it and upload that in GitHub after you create a folder named submission8 in your repository.

Use the Submission Helper to generate the text for GitHub with all the required information. Make a text file named README.txt in the folder. Then paste the generated text in the GitHub and copy the link of your folder. Upload the Final PDF in the same folder.

Now update your Course Spreadsheet Task 8 cell with the given sample. After that submit it in Google Form as well.

Submission 9 (Individual Bonus)

You can get extra bonus by completing course related online courses, making additional projects, or even by being active and helping others in Slack as well. You can also share interesting lectures, videos or URL related to the course in #extra-credit-bonus channel which can help you get bonus as well.

Create a folder named submission9 in your repository and make a text file named README.txt. Copy the whole text from this link and paste it in your readme file. Remove the empty fields and keep only those portion you have done and save it.

You need to submit it in the Google Form only. That would be all.

Congratulations, you are done with all the course submissions.

Referencing System in LaTex (BibTex):

Many of you might face hard time in Latex to keep the correct referencing format. There would be different format for IEEE, ACM, ACL or Springer. BibTex can easily solve this problem.

In your project, Create a file named refs.bib

Add the following code in the bottom of the main.tex:

% For IEEE
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
% For ACM
%\bibliographystyle{acm}
% For Springer
%\bibliographystyle{spbasic}
\bibliography{refs.bib}

Add bibtex references in that refs.bib and cite them in paper by /cite{bibtex_id}

It’s important to follow the correct reference format and this method formats your reference automatically.