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…
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…
