Final Project

• [Mar 16]: Project pre-proposal

  • Talk: 5 min (but no evaluation)

  • Slides: 2 + 5 pages PDF slides

    • Slide 1: Title & name page

    • Slide 1: Your background and interests

    • Slides 2-5: proposal

    • ~45 seconds for each slide

  • Find your teammate (if possible, team size should be less than three)

• [Mar 30]: Proposal

  • 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A

  • Try to answer the following questions:

    • (motivation) What problems are you trying to tackle?

    • (motivation) Why such problems matter?

    • (approach) Any past research?

    • (approach) What is your approach?

    • (approach) Difference between your and past research?

    • (plan/checklist) What is your plan/timeline given the course deadline?

    • (evaluation) How can you demonstrate your approach works better as intended?

  • During your presentation, classmates will evaluate the proposal and plan.

• [Jun 1]: Presentation Demo days

  • TBD

Project ideas

• Students have freedom to choose work on their own problems

  • Can be entirely something new.

  • Might be already working on the current problem.

  • Can work on problems of my choice.