What is “Letters to the younger self ?” It is a collections of “digital messages in a bottle” written by students that successfully graduated. They followed some of the advises that you are going to find in this blog and now they are bloody moving to the next chapter of their life. After the successful…
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…
Let’s see how to write a thesis proposal. Actually… let’s start from the beginning: if you find yourself wondering “what is a thesis proposal?” you probably are enrolled in the 50% of the universities that do now require you to do that. In your case, when is time to write the thesis you will approach…
Thesis Topic: Internships and Fellowships at the European Space Agency ( ESA ) plus Thesis Mentor: Francesco Lelli External Supervisor: Assigned by ESA case by case The European Space Agency (ESA) offer a set of internship for students that want to do a thesis and contribute to the success of the European space program. Some…
Thesis Topic: Data driven customer student journey Mentor: Francesco Lelli External supervisor: Omid Feyli The “Customer Journey” refers to the process of measure, understand and analyze the interactions that a customer has with a particular brand or product. The candidate will devise difference and similarities of these techniques with the digital experience that the students…
Should you release your thesis open access? Firstly, what is open access? Let’s start from the beginning, quoting from Wikipedia: “Open access (OA) is a mechanism by which research outputs are distributed online, free of cost or other barriers, and, in its most precise meaning, with the addition of an open license that removes most restrictions…
The question “should I publish my thesis” is a bit too generic and requires some clarification. We may want to start from understanding what do you mean by “publish” and continue with “where”, “when”, “with who” and “how much it costs”. First of all, publishing a thesis is not synonymous with releasing the thesis in…
