Work in progress..
How good my supervisor is at ignoring my problems
How my professor sees me
Professor says it’s time to hand in the thesis
Solving a problem as PhD student
Solving a problem as Professor
Starting a tenure-track
Workshops versus Conferences
Phd student supervises a master student
What if you include this factor in your model?
From complex looking math, it straightforwardly follows…
The fine art of salami publishing
The last evening before deadline
Free drinks during poster session
Advisor tells you to resubmit the rejected paper to another conference – reviews are even worse
After winning the best paper award
Writing your research proposal … first version
Professor edits the paper
Defending the thesis (How i feel)
Opening the long-awaited editor’s email just to see the fourth round of referee requests
Theory vs. Practice
Theory vs. Practice (another approach)
Submitted my paper 5 seconds before the deadline
How good my supervisor is…
When you find an error in a competitor’s research
Why parameter sensitivity matters
What you’ve proved is already known
Meeting people with my professor at a conference
Get accepted to conference – registration is how much?
“We regret to inform you that you paper has not been accepted” as student
“We regret to inform you that you paper has not been accepted” as PostDoc
“We regret to inform you that you paper has not been accepted” as Professor
“We are pleased to inform you that your paper has been accepted” as student
“We are pleased to inform you that your paper has been accepted” as PostDoc
“We are pleased to inform you that your paper has been accepted” as Professor
When my algorithm beats the baseline
How motivated I am after a conference
How motivated I am after a reject/resubmit
Writing a paper with a 1st year PhD student
Would I like to be local chair?
Emerging research issue
Finding the correct parameters
Reviewer’s point of view
Appealing paper turns out to be pseudoscience
Postdocs writing a paper: So, who will implement this?
How I behave on university info day
Just before the demonstration of the findings
When grant proposal gets accepted
Paper is accepted after 3rd revision
Meeting of researchers about starting a company
Reviewing conference papers
Fitting the paper to page limit
Fitting the paper to page limit (alternative approach)
After submitting a grant proposal
How I prove my theorems
Applying my research on the real world
Budget cuts
Thesis advisor after I told him the incredibly good results
My research’s impact on the community?
Q&A session after presenting the paper
When your colleague tells you about their work
How fast I claim my method is
A top scientist found a new buzzword
How is your research useful?
Windows user on linux server for the first time
How my paper got rejected
Reviewing a poorly written paper
Accept? Wow, I’m so happy for you… my paper got rejected….
Adding a citation to a paper possibly written by the reviewer
Advisor suggests to change your thesis topic
After the defense
As the figure clearly shows…
At a conference when i don’t know anybody
At a presentation (at first)
At a presentation (after 45 minutes)
Authors “forgot” to import the most important detail
Battling against the state-of-the-art
Being in academia started as so much fun
Changing just a tiny bit in my LaTeX tabular
Checking the results of a 2-week-long experiment
Conducting interdisciplinary research
Expanding several years old conference paper to a journal version
Fast versus Exact solutions
Fertile research topic
Getting your sole-author paper accepted
Given your expertice in the area, the editorial board of Prestigious Journal would appreciate your comments on this paper (First review invitation)
Given your expertise in the area, the editorial board of Prestigious Journal would appreciate your comments on this paper (Second review invitation)
Going to a conference with a 1st year student
Google: We are happy to announce our new website on … (your thesis topic)
How i feel at poster presentations
How i sell my method
How you think you solved a problem (at time of submitting the paper)
How you think you solved a problem (Two years later)
How your mom imagines your conference talks
I have the greatest idea ever!
I realized the results were wrong after i submitted the paper
I will just do this with Excel
Industry versus Academia (Academia, from industry’s point of view)
Industry versus Academia (Industry, from academic point of view)
Industry versus Academia (reality for both)
Listening to my professor explaining my latest paper to his colleague
Me, the conference i want to attend, and my professor
My latest experiments disapprove my colleague’s work
My publication record when applying for a grant
My supervisor still uses word 97
Of course (my favorite method) can be used to solve that problem!
Paper submission deadline extended 1 week
Postdocs tell me life will be even more busy after getting your PhD
Professor mentions my work in a keynote (how he acts)
Professor mentions my work in a keynote (meanwhile in my head)
Professor suggesting a new topic to a PhD student
Seeing results of another researcher on the same topic
Someone in the audience points out a practical application for my research
Submitting 3 minutes before the deadline
Supervisor sends the first bunch of comments on your paper
This time it will get through
Trying to find somebody to cover your lecture
Under the assumption…
Well… i am paid to come up with novel ideas
What session chairs should do when speakers go overtime
What you have proven is already known
When an undergraduate finds a critical error in a paper
When friends ask me to explain them what’s my research about
When somebody mixes up causality and correlation
When trying to find reviewers for a conference you organize
When you try to arrange a meeting with your advisor
When your co-authors don’t quite match your pace in the project
When your method is re-discovered without any citation
When your supervisor asks you to “help” him in writing a proposal
Why parameter sensitivity matters
Writing a paper (At first)
Writing a paper (Few years later)
Writing a paper outside your area of expertise
How postgraduate students tackle undergraduate students
How postgraduate students tackle undergraduate students (another approach)
Before the final demo
Before the final demo (another approach)
Trying to optimize problem’s solution