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Brief History of Time
Ph.D. (UMass)
è CS @ Texas A&M
è ECE @ UIUC
è CS @ Georgetown
Fault-tolerantcomputing
è Wireless networks/systems
è Distributed computing theory
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Nitin VaidyaGeorgetown University
How to Succeed in Academia Without Really Trying
6/20/2019NSF CSR workshop
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Caveat: Use advice at your own risk
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First Things First
How to Succeed in Academia Without Really Trying
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First Things First
g Know why you are in academia
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First Things First
g Know why you are in academia
iTeaching
iIndependence
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First Things First
g Know why you are in academia
iTeaching … don’t like teaching? Leave academia
iIndependence … don’t let others define success for you
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First Things First
g How do you define success?
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First Things First
g How do you define success?
iFame?
iFortune?
iInnovation?
iImpact?
iHappiness?9
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First Things First
g How do you define success?
iFame?
iFortune?
iInnovation?
iImpact?
iHappiness?10
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How to Succeed in Academia Without Really Trying
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Outline
g It’s all about expectations
g Work is easy when you are having fun
g Anybody can be busy, not being busy takes work
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It’s All About Expectations
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Secret to happiness is tolower your expectations to the pointwhere they're already met
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So the secret to good self-esteem is tolower your expectations to the pointwhere they're already met?
- Hobbes
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Expectations
g Set higher expectations
g Focus on quality, not quantity
CS community moving in the wrong direction... greater quantity in the name of better quality
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Expectations
g Papers
iNot enough to publish (lots of) papersiYou want people to read them too
iWhat sets apart better-known papers from others?
g Proposals
iGood ideas alone not enough
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Expectations
g Do unto others as you would have done unto you
… think from the perspective of the reader… don’t annoy them
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Proposals
g First 2-3 pages should suffice … rest is details
g Make key ideas easy to find … boxes, itemization
g Ample white spaces … less is sometimes more
g Picture worth thousand words
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Proposals
g Writing better doesn’t mean more work
g Read good papers / proposals
g Get colleagues’ feedback before submitting for review
g Follow funding agency guidelines
g Serve on NSF panel … learn from the dynamics
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Outline
g It’s all about expectations
g Work is easy when you are having fun
g Anybody can be busy, not being busy takes work
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Independence
g You are your own boss
… make the most of it
… but there is no one else to blame
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Independence
g Don’t fret tenure … it’s not the holy grail
g Work on what you like … not necessarily the hot topic
g Choose projects to match your strengths … not trendslarge/smallsystems/theoryresearch/education/broader impact
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Independence
Assistant à Associate à Full … Retire?
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Independence
Assistant à Associate à Full … Retire?à Chair à Dean …
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Independence
Assistant à Associate à Full … Retire?à Chair à Dean …
à Start-upsà Consultingà Textbooks
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Independence
Assistant à Associate à Full … Retire?à Chair à Dean …
à Start-upsà Consultingà Textbooks
Assistant à Associate à Full à Don’t “Retire”
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Independence
g Change can be good
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Independence
g Change can be good
iAcademia lets you work on things for which you haveno competence
iExploit this to get into new areas
iMake connections with folks well outside your comfort zone
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Picture from Wikipedia
DistributedControl
DistributedComputing
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1980: Pease, Shostak, LamportByzantine consensus
1986: Dolev et al.Approximate
Byzantine consensus
Tsitsiklis 1984:Decentralized control
Hajnal 1958Weak ergodicity of non-homogeneous Markov chains
DistributedControl Jadbabaei 2003
Flocking problem
DistributedComputing
1983: Fischer, Lynch, PatersonAsynchronous
impossibility result
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Independence
g Change can be good
iAcademia lets you work on things for which you haveno competence
iExploit this to get into new areas
iMake connections with folks well outside your comfort zone
iPerspective you bring from other areas beneficial
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Independence
g Change can be good
iChanging jobs invigorating
iNew environment, new collaborators, new perspectives
iTenure’s downside … inertia
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Independence
If you are not having fun doing what you do,why bother being in academia?
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Anybody Can be Busy, Not Being Busy Takes Work
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Easy to be Busy
g Bigger isn’t necessarily better
iToo many program committees, organizing activities,editorial boards
iToo many students
iToo many grants
iToo many meetings
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Easy to be Busy
g If you are too busy, you are doing something wrong
iLearn to say no
iMake time for things that require deeper thinking
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Easy to be Busy
g If you are too busy, you are doing something wrong
iLearn to say no
iMake time for things that require deeper thinking
iTake care of yourself… nothing else will matter if you don’t have health
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Conclusion
g It’s all about expectations
g Work is easy when you are having fun
g Anybody can be busy, not being busy takes work
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