It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post on my personal website. I wanted to write a blog post reflecting on my PhD journey after successfully defending my PhD in February 2025. I think it’s now the time to share my advice with prospective PhD students. Initially, I was thinking about giving people some general advice on how to complete a PhD with successful results and a happy outcome. However, I decided to offer two essential pieces of advice to people, which can potentially help them not only during their PhD journey but also after graduation, when the serious part of the game begins. Now, my main reason is that AI chatbots like ChatGPT can provide people with general advice on “How to Do a PhD.” So, I don’t want to repeat what an AI agent can tell you.
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On the importance of writing skill in Academia
In this post, I share my thoughts on the importance of writing skill in Academia. Currently, I’m a PhD student. So a large part of my job is to write papers and a thesis at the end. I don’t consider myself a good writer by any means, though I got compliments about my writing from some people. This post is useful mostly for novice researchers like PhD students and also people who want to consider a research career in Academia.
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9 useful tips for PhD students
I’m back again with another post after a long time! I’m currently a second-year PhD student in software engineering at TU Delft. Since last summer, I wanted to write a blog post for giving some tips to PhD students. You might now call me a “lazy person”!! 😀 but I tweeted some short tips a while ago. However, on Twitter, it’s not possible to explain things and give examples. I’m also writing this post to remind myself of the below tips, given that I haven’t finished my PhD yet. Without further ado, let’s talk about the tips:
The main sections of a research paper are explained (With examples from a machine learning research paper)
To stay up-to-date in your field of research or study, you should read research papers. However, reading a research paper is not like reading a newspaper. Because a paper has a formal structure that consists of several sections. Authors of research papers know the structure quite well. It is also essential for readers to be familiar with the main sections of a research paper. This helps readers to quickly find the information they are looking for in a research paper. Moreover, it helps them comprehend new ideas and methods of a paper better. Aside from gaining new knowledge, reading research papers help you find out what was done in the past to solve a particular problem. Therefore, you are not going to reinvent the wheel and probably implement a method or algorithm that is proposed in a paper.
In this post, I explain the components of each section in a research article. Also, examples from a real and open-access research paper in machine learning are provided to help you understand the components of each section.