Ph.D. in Computing and Information Sciences

CACSI Wiki for PhD Students

Please note that the official web page for the PhD program is at (coming soon). The CASCI Wiki is used to store some useful intermediate and ad-hoc information about the PhD program and may be relevant to you. In order for you to participate in updating this page, you need to be registered with the Wiki.

Registration: When filling out the registration form, please do not change the Wiki login name. To maintain consistancy, we like that you use FisrtLastname and omit any special characters such as spaces, -, '.. in your Wiki name. IN case this name is already taken, please contact gregor@rit.edu for a WikiName? suggestion.

Contact Data: After you have registered, you need to fill out more contact data about yourself. Please, go to the Contact page and click on your name. Please fill out the information. This will help establishing an address book. Please also provide an jpeg image of yours. Make sure it is 100 pixels wide and 145 pixels high. Please do not upload a gigantic picture. If you do not have a picture, stop by Gregors office so he can take one of you.

Mailinglists: Please, visit the Mailinglists Page and subscribe to casci-phd, casci-students, casci-all

Contributing: It is expected from you to contribute to the Wiki. This ca be done in multiple forms. You can help administer the Wiki, help make modifications to spelling and grammar, help putting up new contents, Help putting together an FAQ on a variety of topics useful for students, or any CASCI member, list project ideas, Write weekly updates, ...

Community Contributions

Each student will have one or more task assigned to assure that the work burdon of maintaining this Wiki and the space in CASCI is distributed. In many cases the positions are coordination tasks, that means you need to coordinate with others how to fulfill this task. You will be responsible of the delivery. In some cases that means you may have to do the task yourself in order to guarantee timely execution.

• For example, assume you are the Fridge Coordinator. You may decide to design a sign-up sheet and assign each student to serve as Fridge cleaner. You will assign a predetermined time every two weeks and you check if the fridge cleaning was conducted (a check mark by the cleaner on the sheet with the date). If the fridge is not clean confront the person that had fridge duty and remind them about cleaning it. A simple task and easy to do through delegation. Make sure you send e-mail reminders to people when they need to clean the fridge.

Current Community Contribution Tasks

Please, pick a task and put your Wiki contact behind it. Please help identifying new tasks. Please, be frindly and nice when you attempt to coordinate. If there are any problems while executing your task talk to GregorVonLaszewski.

• Task Coordinator: GregorVonLaszewski: year round, assures that the tasks are all staffed
• Fridge Coordinator: DavidWollenhaupt, Fall 2007, Assigns a biweekly schedule for monitoring spoiled food and the cleaning of the fridge.
• Space Coordinator: TBD, Qtr,Can recruit any CASCI student with helping to clean the office space
• Schedule Coordinator: ErikGolen, Fall 2007, Keeps the schedule of course schedule up to date
• Address Coordinator (students): YoshihiroNozaki, Fall 2007, Makes sure that the address data on the wiki is up to date
• Address Coordinator (faculty): HasanTuncer, Fall 2007, Makes sure that the address data on the wiki is up to date
• Address Coordinator (others, alumni, ...): KenWong, Fall 2007, Makes sure that the address data on the wiki is up to date
• Wiki Educator : VeselinPehlivanov, Fall 2007, In case people have questions about wiki and its functionality, you can be contacted
• Idea Coordinator: RuiLi, Fall 2007, You may have suggestions for improvements. This person will collect the suggestions on the IdeaPage.
• Wiki Guru: TBD, Qtr, You will help improving the technical capacity of the Wiki and become a Wiki admin
• Wiki CSS Writer: TBD, Qtr: You will help designing a CSS that looks like http://rit.edu/templates.html (together with Patrick Skinner)
• Bib Coordinator: MelvinPerez, Qtr: You will be helping establishing a bibliography system with Gregor for CASCI
• Communication Coordinator: LinweiWang Qtr: make sure all students have Wiki accounts and are on the mailing lists.
• Slacker Coordinator: TBD, Qtr: Identify those that do not have signed up for any tasks and help identifying possible tasks

Yearly Course Schedule 2007-2008

PhD Students starting 2006

PhD Students starting 2007

Name	Email Address
Yamin Al-Mousa	ysa4981@rit.edu
Rui LI	rxl5604@rit.edu
Yoshihiro Nozaki
Melvin Perez	mhp6647@rit.edu
Hasan Tuncer	hxt3948@ad.rit.edu
Linwei Wang	lxw4393@rit.edu
Yuqiong (Joan) Wang	yxw3995@rit.edu
Chun-Lok (Ken) Wong	kenclwong@mail.rit.edu

Faculty

Useful forms

• PDF: Description of the new course: PhD Independent Study
• PDF: Accompanied form for PhD Independent Study

Focus Areas

Students can elect a focus area.

Distributed Systems: One of the focus areas is distributed computing. More information about it can be found at http://www.cs.rit.edu/clusters/clusters/distributed_systems.php Many research activities take place outside the class and can be found in the Jobs section of this Wiki. This includes independent studies, capstone projects, and class project with approval of the instructor.