This is just a rough schedule, which normally gets adjusted to the individual student:
As guideline for your performance, I normally use a 5 P system:
- Proposals -> i.e. acquire research money, travel grants, etc.
- Papers / Publications -> dimensions are: high bean counter (i.e. overall number) as well as high impact publications (# citations, acceptance rate, ISWC, WWW)
- Project reports -> the basic work needs to get done as well
- presentations/proceedings -> help with workshops, give presentations
- programs -> releases, demos
As a rough guideline, I expect you to (co-)author 3–4 publications a year. Normally, the Ph D students from AKSW are able to program in 4 to 5 languages and have done around 10 major software releases, received several travel grants and helped to write high ROI proposals. One skill of a Post-Doc is to write project reports and EU deliverables to a certain extent, even if you bring external funding. The rationale is to practice writing project reports, so you acquire that skill and we can give you the Ph D. This accounts for the whole large AKSW group, so the number of this basic work is spread on many shoulders.
1st year:
- some personal training (unix, reasoning, OWL modeling, infrastructure)
- working on an open-source project
- cleaning up an existing code project
- writing lots of reviews for workshops
- for publications:
- implementing the experiment
- writing state of the art / related work section
- doing surveys
- topics will be given by me or other AKSW members
- (you might become a student chair for one of my workshops as well)
2nd year:
- you will have to present your own topic
- create/manage your own software projects
- learn some more programming languages
- help in writing proposals (workplan and state of the art)
- writing lots of reviews for workshops and conferences
- do presentations (e.g. tutorials)
- publications
- as first author
- make research plans for publications in the area of your thesis
3rd year:
- basically like the 1 and 2, but you will have to act more independent