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SSNCE Research Scholars’ Colloquium
24 Oct, 2020
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (“PK”)
#ProfGiri CS, #DeanGiri Student Affairs IIIT Delhi
ACM India Council Member
TEDx & ACM Distinguished Speaker
Strategies for Scientific
Communication

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Getting to know the Audience & Protocol
Students / Faculty / Others
Ph.D. students
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+1 :-) :D :PMute!!!

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Disclaimer
Wide audience, different background
Will try to keep it abstract, and hopefully everyone will have something to takeaway
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What I want to Cover
Picking a real-world problem
Blogademia
Create public good
Be active about research on social media
Develop / be part of a group / community
Use tools / platforms effectively
Presenting
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Let's define Scientific Communication
Publications / Journals / Conferences
Editorials / Opinion pieces
Books
Critiques
Technical writing
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Thesis → Wombat

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Blogademia
What is it?
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Blogademia
10https://firstmonday.org/article/view/2962/2580

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Blogademia
http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/blog/2019/03/13/hardening-deep-neural-networks-via-adversarial-model-cascades/
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Writing technical blogs -->
write better academic papers
Keep track of work & log is public
Small pieces of work

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https://paperswithcode.com/
Credibility
Building on your work
Visibility

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https://www.mendeley.com/
Easy to share with team
Public groups
Notes / Management
Filters
Annotations (R / G / Y)

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https://www.researchgate.net/

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GitHub
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https://github.com/precog-iiitd https://github.com/ivan-bilan/The-NLP-Pandect/

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Presenting your work!
Keep it short, then make it shorter
Leave lot more time for Q&A
Ask audience questions during the talk
Get rid of bullet points [Tufte]
Podcast - both listen and create
Simplify technical jargon
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https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/pi/2016_2017/phil/tufte-powerpoint.pdf
https://www.underratedml.com/, https://twitter.com/mlindiapodcast https://lexfridman.com/podcast/

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Presenting your work!
Equations/formulae are often inaccessible
Just because a figure/table is in your paper, doesn't mean it should be in your blog
post or talk
Dont discuss the whole paper, only excite people to read the paper
Build a Story for the audience, it is compelling for specific audience
Elevator Pitch (2 mins, 3 mins, 5 mins)
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Slideshare
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Develop a network of friends / critiques
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Students working in the same area
Strategies to find them
Attend #PhDClinic #AMA
Contribute to local tech / related clubs
Become member of ACM India / IEEE
http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/phdclinic/

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PhDClinic MailingList - http://bit.ly/phdcliniclistjoin
https://india.acm.org/research

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Create Public Good
http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/resources.html
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https://snap.stanford.edu/data/

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Create Public Good
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9% more citations

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Be active on Social Media, about research :-)
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Be active on Social Media, about research :-)
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Interact with others working on similar problems online
Read their paper, make comments, ask questions, etc. [Everyone likes Attention]

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Crowdsourcing developing this talk!
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Engagement outside one's community
40% was with non-technical
Ecology & Conservation domain
Life cycle of research

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27https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32251463/
Pull vs Push model

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28https://peerj.com/articles/4564/
Increase in citations

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What I want to Cover
Picking a real-world problem
Blogademia
Create public good
Be active about research on social media
Develop / be part of a group / community
Use tools / platforms effectively
Presenting
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How to narrow down Research areas / topics
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Opportunity to
dent / contribute
Professional
opportunities
Peer /
Community help
Skills /
Background
Amount of
work done
Topic 1
Topic 2
Topic 3

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YouTube Channel
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Some good resources!
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Others we discussed during the session
Ask questions to speakers
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Acknowledgements
All current-past-students who spent / spending time with me
Hemank Lamba (CMU), Daksh Shah (IIITD), Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown), Rohit
Bhatia, Vedant Das Swain (GaTech), Divy Thakkar (Google), Munmun De Choudhury
(GaTech), Dhruv Kuchhal (GaTech), Yaman Kumar (IIITD), Kala Sai Bharadwaj (IIITD),
Shradha Sehgal (IIITH), Sidhant Sarkar (IIITD), Manvith Reddy (IIITH), Mallika
Subramnian (IIITH)
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Thanks!
Questions? pk@iiitd.ac.in
http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/
@ponguru
pkatiiitd
linkedin/in/ponguru