Speaker: Prof. Zhang Kang

Time: 2:00p.m., 1 Dec 2021 (Wed)

Venue: T2-202

Language: English

Abstract:

Writing a proper technical paper in English is always a challenge for Chinese students. Good introduction (from an insider who has chaired many conferences and on editorial boards of several journals) to writing and guided practice would help students to quickly gain the writing skills. This talk introduces the basic requirements for proper styles and formats targeted at IEEE or ACM conferences and journals (for Computer Science and Software Engineering, but equally applicable to other engineering disciplines). The recent option of open publications will also be discussed. Most importantly, how to get a paper accepted and published? We will provide some real case studies: reasons for some rejected papers submitted to an IEEE conference will be analyzed based on reviewers’ comments. We will finally list several typical Chinese English phrases and suggest better usages.

About the Speaker:

Zhang Kang is a professor in DST, UIC. He was a Fulbright Distinguished Chair, full professor with tenure at the University of Texas at Dallas, and held academic positions in the UK, Australia, and China. Zhang‘s research interests include computational aesthetics, visual languages, and software engineering. He has published 8 books, and over 100 journal papers. He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker and on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Big Data, The Visual Computer, Journal of Visual Language and Computing, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, and 《软件学报》.