Handbook for PhD Students
This PhD Handbook serves a dual purpose: it describes the research methodology of our group and gives general advice to students, and it sets out the standards and processes that all students in the group are expected to strive for.
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Support roles in the group
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We have several support roles to help with various aspects of managing our research group. Roles and responsibilities are listed below.
Code & Data admin: (current: )
- Manage our group code repo (e.g. access to GitHub repo, creating new code repos for people)
- Ensure code repos uphold our reproducibility & transparency policy (e.g. code files include documentation, code repos include Readme files with usage instructions)
Server admin: (current: )
- Provide general tech support for our servers via the #compute channel on Discord (e.g. server problems, software installation, config, etc.)
- Help with physical installation of servers in server rooms
- Contact NTU IT support for issues with centrally-managed servers
Group meeting admin: (current: )
- Organise our biweekly research group meetings
- Find people to present project updates (two people per meeting, each ~15-20min + 10min discussion)
- Book the meeting room and send the invite via Outlook Calendar when creating the meeting event (include room location if in-person)
- Announce meeting and speakers in the #group channel on Discord
- Frequency: biweekly (check day/time with me for each meeting), alternating with the RL reading group meetings
Social media admin: (current: )
- Post messages on our X and LinkedIn and Xiaohongshu channels
- E.g. about new papers, blog posts, events we're organising or attending, news about books, other news, etc. - ping me or group on Discord (#social-media channel) to get ideas
- Help to increase social media following
- Before posting, send me a draft of the message to approve
- Frequency: weekly
RL reading sessions: (current: Eason Yu)
- Organise biweekly RL reading sessions
- Announce meetings on the RL reading mailing list
- Add meetings on the RL reading calendar
- Manage the paper voting list
- Frequency: biweekly, alternating with research group meetings
Socials admin: (current: )
- Organise group social events via the #group channel on Discord
- Frequency: aim for at least one event per year-quarter
- Organise weekly group lunches