1. Typical Guideline

For Thesis

Semester 3

  • Step 0 (~1hr): Discuss the area of interest with Chaky and Ph.D. students -> Broad topic/title
  • 1st step (~ 2w): Paper reading and Related Work writing.
  • 2nd step (~2w): Topic confirmation with supervisor AND Ph.D. students -> Narrow and focus Topic/title
  • 3rd step (~4w): Writing Introduction, Related Work, Methodology
  • 4th step (~4w): Rewriting + Start coding proof of concept
  • 5th step (~2w): Proposal presentation

Semester 4

  • 6th step (~4w): Implementation
  • 7th step (~2w): Writing the remaining section Result, Discussion, Conclusion
  • 8th step (~1w): Proposal Progress
  • 9th step (~4w): Publication + lots of rewriting
  • 10th step (~2w): Final Defense

Graduate Hooray~!!

For Research

The research starts in your final semester. You only have 4 months. You should propose your research before the midterm. Finish it and defend the third month. Publish before final.

2. Resources

3. How to write 101

  1. Topic sentence / Thesis statement: The introduction will consist of fives paragraph. The first one will be about the background. It should summarize why the chosen field is important.
  2. No bulls**t: Bulls**t is “things the reader already know”. We should avoid writing general knowledge. Try to shorten the sentence as much as possible.
  3. **Facts; no emotion: **
    • Popular, famous, very, always should not be used
    • If it is commonly accepted knowledge then you don’t need to cite
    • If the sentence is not a fact, use ‘may/might’.
    • Evidence!!
  4. No ambiguity: Each word should have only one meaning
    • “My performance is good” “My system outperforms the baseline” - these two sentences did not tell you in what way the system is good.

4. Funding

For CS/IM/DSAI student

Kindly be informed that there is no fixed rate for masters, they can make a request upon their research needs.  For Ph.D. we have a fixed rate at 30,000 for the entire period of study, they may use it for their conference/paper publication. – Siriporn (7/7/2021)

In summary.

  • Ph.D. has 30,000 for the entire study. eg. conference/paper publication
  • Master has no fixed rate. 
  • There are two ways to get this budget.
    • Planned: Fill in the SRO Form. You will receive the budget. Return A) Leftover budget and B) Valid bills (Sum of both must equal or exceed the budget)
    • Non-planned: This required A) Advisor approval and B) Valid bill.
  • Fixed asset items must be returned to CSIM.

5. Valid Bill

In Thailand, there are two kinds of bill.

5.1 Tax Invoice

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The first kind (Tax Invoice) is preferred. Normally, for any legit shop, you can ask them for Tax Invoice. They will ask for the following information

  • Buyer name: Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
  • Buyer Address: 58 Moo 9, Paholyothin Road, Km. 42, Klongluan Pathumthani 12120, Thailand
  • Buyer Tax ID: 099-4000-241-330

5.2 Cash Sale

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The second kind (Cash Sale) is the last option because it is handwritten and anyone can write anything on any paper (prone to fraud). However, if you buy from a person they usually give you this when you ask for a bill. The cautions are the following.

  • Fill in the Buyer name: Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
  • Fill in the Address: 58 Moo 9, Paholyothin Road, Km. 42, Klongluan Pathumthani 12120, Thailand
  • Write the purchasing item clearly (quantity, description, unit, price, and total price)
  • Sign the collector (usually the seller forget to sign)
  • A copy of collector’s citizen id or business card of the shop (that has owner’s name and shop address)