Setting up the proper mindset is extremely important for developing the right attitude for your thesis. Below, you will find a collection of videos that should help you in finding a potential missing component in your cocktail for success. Please consider them as an invitation to think critically where you are instead of instructions to…
How to write a survey for scientific research? I am writing this article because several students ask me to supervise their master thesis using survey as a research methodology. Sometimes they see it as an “easy way out” of their thesis. In this article I am summarizing some of the core messages of an old…
Master Thesis Plus Talpa Internship Opportunities in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Mentor at TiU: Francesco Lelli Mentors at Talpa: Anca Dumitrache and/or Ricardo Fabian Guevara There are some internships opportunities available at Talpa. You will have the opportunity to develop your master’s thesis in collaboration with the AI division of one of the most…
Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations! You did it! You got your degree (or you are about to) and now you are preparing yourself for the next challenges in your life. With this post, instead of giving you my commencement speech, I will point you to words of others. There are plenty of commencement speech around and the…
Why I am sharing these simple rules for taking care of yourself during your thesis? Well… in simply: “mens sana in corpore sano” is a Latin phrase, usually translated as “a healthy mind in a healthy body”. In other words, in sporting and educational contexts this phrase represents an invitation to reflect on the fact…
What is “Letters to the younger self ?” It is a collections of “digital messages in a bottle” written by students that successfully graduated. Some are friends and colleagues, have been my students. Hopefully, they followed some of the advises that you are going to find in this blog. Independently of this fact they now…
What is the the roles of the supervisor? I have supervised many successful Msc theses projects, and had some failures. Now, I am Msc Thesis coordinator at Tilburg University, for the Information Management program. In this article, I would like to elaborate on the role of the supervisor. Suppose you are a supervisor yourself. You…
So, what is going to the the future of your thesis after your graduation? Will it be forgotten or will it change the world? Let’s see possible directions that it could take and how you could influence its destiny. There is not a scenario that is more probable and your actions as well as the…
Let’s see who are the players around your thesis starting from the majors. By player I mean people or offices that will interact with you during the thesis. Each entity has different interests and cover different aspects of your personal and intellectual grow. Clearly the main player in this adventure is YOU YOU: as student…
Title: Natural Language Processing for Unstructured Text in Colloquial Conversations (tentative) Mentor: Francesco Lelli Co-Supervisor: Joshua Eckblad Have you ever received an eMail from a friend proposing a vacation to Venice and 30 second later you stumble into an advertisement proposing cheap flights or hotels for that very same destination? Welcome to the world of…
