Student Mentoring WorkshopICSE 2020

Live Mentoring Sessions

There will be two live 90-minute networking and mentoring session over Zoom, the week before ICSE. We picked 2 times to accommodate different time zones:

• Session 1: July 2, 5pm UTC (1pm on July 2 in EDT, 7pm on July 2 CEST, 2am on July 3 KST)

• Session 2: July 3, 7am UTC (4pm KST, 9am CEST, 2am EDT)

Speakers

• Sarah Nadi (University of Alberta)
  • Preparing a grad school application & contacting potential supervisors
• Nicole Novielli (University of Bari)
  • Choosing a research topic: the importance of collaboration and multidisciplinarity
• Jonathan Bell (Northeastern University)
  • Building Networks
• Shin Yoo (KAIST)
  • Surviving Grad School for Fun and  Profit Research
• Michael Hilton (CMU)
  • Teaching focused positions: The best kept secret in academia
• Ciera Jaspan (Google)
  • Life after the Ph.D
• Hitesh Sajnani (UC Irvine, Microsoft)
  • Reflections on working in Industry after PhD
• Shane McIntosh (McGill U), Yu Huang (U Michigan), Mohammed Sayagh (Queens U) and Cuiyun Gao (Harbin Inst. Tech.)
• "What I wish I knew when I started grad school"

External talks

• Derek Dreyer.
• How To Write Papers So People Can Read Them
• Kenny Foner.
• How Can I Academia When My Brain Can't Even? Mental Health in Grad School and Beyond
• Marco Gaboardi.
• Research as a collaborative effort
• Chris Martens.
  • Anti-disciplinary: Doing a PhD when you like too many things

Mentors

• Jonathan Bell (Northeastern University)
• Michael Hilton (CMU)
• Yu Huang (University of Michigan)
• Brittany Jonhson (GMU)
• Sarah Nadi (University of Alberta)
• Nicole Novielli (University of Bari)
• Hitesh Sajnani (Microsoft)
• Matt Statt (Google)
• Peggy Storey (University of Victoria)
• Yi Li (Nanyang Technological University)
• Gregory Gay (University of Gothenburg)
• Jooyong Yi (UNIST)
• Christian Kaestner (CMU)
• Shane McIntosh (McGill University)
• Yunja Choi (Kyungpook National University)