Computer Science Research Project COMP3006

Course overview

Course description

Students will conduct a small research project, under supervision. This will give them experience in research in an area of interest in computer science. The activities in the course will normally include some combination of reading, writing, project work and presentation as appropriate to the topic. The learning objectives, project overview and assessment arrangements will be specified at the outset using the Department of Computer Science form 'Independent Study Contract'.

Course content

This is a research project course. The student will focus on a specific topic study under a supervisor supervision. 

The student is typically required to read some
classic and up-to-date research papers (at least 5 to dozens
papers) on the chosen topic. Through the project study, the student
is required to write a research report by providing a detailed
literature survey that includes the problem background introduction,
the main theorems, models or algorithms descriptions, associated
theoretical analysis and correctness proof, and potential future
work, and major references. In addition, the student is strongly
encouraged to give his own idea, provide improved/extended model and
algorithms, and conduct experiments to evaluate the performance of
the proposed algorithms or models or perform theoretical analysis or
validate the correctness of the model, etc.

Rationale

It aims to build a bridge for students from textbooks to research related paper reading. Through such training, the students should be able to conduct the literature review and write concise survey reports, and present the results orally.

Topics

Any topic in computing and information technology is OK.

Technical skills

Literature review skill

suvery paper wirting skills

oral presentation skills

master research approaches

Workload

As many hours as necessary for meetings with supervisors and a nominal 10 hours per week