Welcome to grad school! Whether you are a fresh or end-of-the-path Ph.D, this page is very useful. MS student also get benefit. (Migrated from my google site.)

Tips and Advises

• 11 steps to structuring a science paper editors will take seriously - Angel Borja, PhD.
• Belinda Thom’s advice - Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Harvey Mudd College.
• Computer Science Student Resources - by Dr. William Stallings, Ph.D from MIT, author of Operating System book, a various useful resources for CS students.
• Tips from Professor Jennifer Widom, Infolab, CS Department, Stanford University
• Advice from Professor Michael Ernst, CS Department, University of Washington
• Tips and advice from Matthew Might, Assistant Professor in , School of Computing, University of Utah
• Advice for Research Students, Associate Professor Jason Eisner, Machine Learning group, Department of CS, Johns Hopkins University.
• Advices from Professor David Evans, Computer Science, University of Virginia (link to ton of other advice from this website).
• Graduate school survival guide - Ronald T. Azuma, Ph.D
• Oral Presentation Advice - Professor Mark D. Hill, CS Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M.J. Hanson. Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology, 1989
• Research Career Advice, Computer Science Dept., University of Texas at Austin - Links to many useful advice for CS students.
• Advice from Dr. Vasant Honavar, Dept. CS, Iowa State University - A lot of useful advice, recommend books, career, humors.
• Conference vs Journal in CS, by Michael Ernst.
• How to read a paper - Prof. Margo Seltzer, Harvard University
• greatresearch.org How to do a great research (website)
• Vivik Handar blog - Tips and advice for CS PhD student
• The Grad Student Way - (Best career resource for PhDs award) A quality blog about tips for grad student, especially Ph.D guys want to join the industry
• Ergotron - Setup your desk correctly
• FindAPhd - General guide, good articles, good when doing a PHD or even after that
• PublishingCampus - Elsevier Training. Advice. Live Discussion. Networks
• Writing Center of University of Wisconsin-Madison - Very useful website, giving tips not only for research paper but also CV, grant proposals, technical report, etc.

Where to publish

Journals in Database System

• Sigmod Record
• VLDB
• TKDE - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• TODS - ACM Transactions on Database System
• IEEE Transactions on Computers monthly
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering SCI (IF: 2.476) monthly
• Journal of the ACM (IF: 1.8)
• Information Sciences SCI (IF: 3.364 in 2016) Review speed: 10.7 weeks - 18.9 weeks (2015)
• Data and Knowledge Engineering (DAK). SCI (IF: 1.5 ) Review speed:
• ISR - Information Systems Research (Quaterly)
• IS - Information Systems, SCI (IF: 1.832 in 2016) Review speed: 12.9 weeks - 20.2 weeks (2015)
• Future Generation Computer Systems - SCI (IF: 2.43) Review speed: 11.3 weeks - 17.6 weeks (2016)
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems SCI (IF: 2.6)
• Information Systems Journal SCI (IF: 2.52) bimonthly
• Information Systems and Applications (IF: 1.7) 71 days
• Journal of Systems Architecture
• Journal of Systems and Software
• Sementic Web Journal (IF: 1.78)
• Journal of Computer and System Science SCI (IF: 1.583) Review speed: 8.4 ~ 15 weeks (2016)
• INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS Quarterly ISSN: 1744-0084
• JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS bimonthly
• Big Data Research Quarterly ISSN: 2214-5796

Conferences in Database System

1st Tier

• VLDB - Very Large Data Base
• ACM SIGMOD - International Conference on Management of Data
• IEEE ICDE - International Conference on Data Engineering
• PODS - Symposium on Principles of Database Systems
• CIDR - Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research
• EDBT - The International Conference on Extending Database Technology (Based In Euro)
• ADBIS - International Conf. on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (Based in Euro)
• CIKM - International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
• FAST- USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
• USENIX Anual Technical Conference
• UIC Ubiquitous Intelligent and Computing Intl. Conference (Multi-streamed SSD submit)

2nd Tier

• Computer Science and its Applications (CSA)
• EDB - Emerging Databases
• DASFAA: Database Systems for Advanced Applications (based in Asia)
• SSD: Intl Symp on Large Spatial Databases
• CIKM: Intl. Conf on Information and Knowledge Management
• CLOSER - International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science

DB Academic Network

Researchers

• Professor Sang-Won Lee - VLDB lab, SKKU, Korea (my Ph.D advisor)
• Professor Wook-Shin Han - DB lab, POSTECH, Korea (my MS. advisor)
• Professor Michael Stonebraker - MIT CS and AI lab, Pioneer in DB field.
• Professor Jennifer Widom - Department Chair, Computer Science, Stanford University
• Professor Eamonn Keogh - Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of California - Riverside. Time series DB.
• Professor Raghu Ramakrishman - University of Wisconsin-Madison (until 2012), Technical Fellow and CTO at Microsoft (Information Services), head of Cloud and Information Services Lab (CISL)
• Dr. Jim Gray, researcher and manager of Microsoft Research’s eScience group. ACM Turing award for his work on transaction processing.

Labs

• MIT Database group
• Stanford University InfoLab
• UC Berkeley Database Group
• Indiana Database Group
• Tehran University database group
• Non-Volatile System Lab

Ranking

• Microsoft Academic Journals ranking in Database
• Microsoft Academic Conference ranking in Database
• Latest Impact Factors from Elsevier Computer Science journals
• CS Conference ranking from Department of Computer Science, University of Alberta

Tools

Citation Management

• Mendeley: cross-platform cite management application. Get your papers organized (my favorite)
• Ennote: commercial alternative to Mendeley
• Zotero: free cross-platform alternative to Mendeley.

  Searching

• Google Scholar - Useful when searching for a research paper, citation. (my favorite)
• Google Searching Quick References PDF
• Power searching with google
• Naver: search, EN/KO dict, map - Useful when you are living in South Korea

Writing Tools

• Latex - strongly prefered for CS and Math related fields.
• MS-word - universal text editor. You will not want to use this app after you get to know Latex.
• Grammarly - Useful at the last stage of writing paper. (my favorite)
• Thesaurus dictionary
• Oxford Learner Dictionary
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online

Note taking

• Evernote - powerful free-to-use note taking applicaiton
• Google docs - alternative to MS Word, free and cross-platform.

Misc

• PhD commic - relax after your work. You could view its adapted movies.