Some material for PhD student training (Cybersecurity and privacy)

• Introduction
• Making plans and stick to schedule
• Find research directions and references
  • Find high impact journal and conference in your area
  • Find research papers
  • Datasets
• Project management and coding
  • Project management
  • Coding
• Write papers and present your work
  • Academic writing
  • Latex
  • Reference management

Pursuing a PhD degree is an important and quite long period. You need to understand it from the very beginning, including:

• What is my target and motivation?
• What is the skill required in the process?
• How do I achieve my targets and handle all the skills?

Here is a blog from Andrej Karpathy who graduated from CS @ standford and now work as director of AI at Tesla.

A Survival Guide to a PhD

Always have a plan and stick to the schedule.

• Scimago Journal & Country Rank -Find the journal impact

• Core Conference ranking in Australia

• Google scholar metrics - Top publications in different areas.

• Top conferences in security and privacy:

  • IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
  • ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
  • Usenix Security Symposium (Usenix)
  • ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)

• Top journals in security and privacy:

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
  • ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)

• Top Conferences for Machine Learning & Arti. Intelligence

  • IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
  • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (SIGKDD)
  • International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDE)
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

• Top journals for Machine Learning & Arti. Intelligence

  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

• Google scholar -Finding papers by key words. Following peer researchers.
• Semantic Scholar - More accurate search results. Currently only in Computer science and Medicine.

• Google dataset search

• Github -project management, opensource software development platform
• Bitbucket

• Python
• MATLAB

• Tips for Writing Technical Papers - very useful tips for academic writing
• Collected Advice on Research and Writing -CMU
• Writing Technical Articles - Columbia
• Linggle - Language reference search
• Grammarly - Writing assistant

• Overleaf -The easy to use, online, collaborative LaTeX editor
• Getting start with Latex

• Mendeley - online reference manager