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I got an appointment on 30th September. I will encourage you to continue checking the website, it seems they open slots towards the end of each month

Osamagioghowewi:
Please how did u get the invite from the ministry

I am attending an event organised by the ministry. Actually an agency of the ministry. It is a competition with about 1000 entries from over 110 countries and our solution was one of the top 50.

icu4:
hello congrats. do you have any prior travel history and what was your closing account balance. thanks

I have travelled to a couple African countries but not Europe. I did not submit bank statement actually. My invite was from the French foreign ministry. The first date I got for submission was 31st January but I was later called to come on 22nd.

Yildiz:
Please I have a question. I just received an email that my passport is ready for collection but I opted for the courier service. How long does it take to receive my passport? Is there a way to make it move faster? Thank you

Visa approved. 15 days stay. First timer

williamszooh:
@yildiz,if it's courier service, within 2 days,they must surely deliver it to you contact address, please don't hesitate to tell us the outcome,wish you positive result,thank you

Are there clues to suggest the visa has been approved?

Please I have a question. I just received an email that my passport is ready for collection but I opted for the courier service. How long does it take to receive my passport? Is there a way to make it move faster? Thank you

yMcy56:
What's your cost price/breakeven price?
Also, did you buy for short gain, medium or long term?

I really have zero knowledge about shares. I got the shares from the demutualization process as inheritance

yMcy56:
Nah so.

In another news, NGXGROUP is on full bid @21.45!
Up with N1.95..

I have NGXGROUP shares please when should I sale?

The blog post listed journals that are mostly relevant to theoretical computer science. However recommender systems are generally regarded as data mining / information retrieval.

Admitwithschola:
I will choose someone with 3 quality papers published in the major journals of a field over someone with 23 papers published in the minor journals of that field.

To your question, if your 3 papers are in the best journals in your field or if they are in some very respectable journals in your field, then I imagine you would look competitive wherever you apply.

For example, if your 3 papers are published in some of these journals - https://blog.typeset.io/top-16-international-computer-science-journals-a-template-guide-3b838a7fd902, then I believe you are competitive.

It is not by the volume of your papers. Quality and impact matter.

Nevertheless, I would suggest you to still apply widely for a postdoc, no matter what your current publication record looks like. Anything can happen.

I have seen people with only promising working papers, but working papers nonetheless, get accepted into highly coveted Postdoc programmes

Thank you some much. However in my field it is highly difficult to define the best journal for it. The most relevant publication venue should be Recommender Systems conference. However it is not even listed in the approved Chinese Computer Foundation list of conferences and journals. Also while China and some European countries still publish in journals, others have concentrated on conferences.

Admitwithschola:
I will choose someone with 3 quality papers published in the major journals of a field over someone with 23 papers published in the minor journals of that field.

To your question, if your 3 papers are in the best journals in your field or if they are in some very respectable journals in your field, then I imagine you would look competitive wherever you apply.

For example, if your 3 papers are published in some of these journals - https://blog.typeset.io/top-16-international-computer-science-journals-a-template-guide-3b838a7fd902, then I believe you are competitive.

It is not by the volume of your papers. Quality and impact matter.

Nevertheless, I would suggest you to still apply widely for a postdoc, no matter what your current publication record looks like. Anything can happen.

I have seen people with only promising working papers, but working papers nonetheless, get accepted into highly coveted Postdoc programmes

Thank you very much for your reply. However I must point out that here in China students can hardly be corresponding authors. It's like a norm. Secondly both journals are present in WOS and are Q1 papers with impact factor of 5.9 and 4.4. But current trend in the world for my field is conference papers. Top universities and research institutions mostly publish their work in top tier conferences which my supervisor is not a fan of. She prefers the traditional journal route. I am kind of confused actually... H-index and citations would then be difficult since conferences are the preferred route. Although during my masters in Turkey I published 4 papers but not related to my current work.

wip7:
The 3 papers requested are just a graduation requirement and you are not limited to get more. To answer the question; 3 SCI papers are not enough considering the current trend in the EU now; you will be competing with graduates from other EU, USA, Africa, and Asian universities with several papers. Considering my experience as an external jury/reviewer for postdoc and grants in many EU countries; some of the important factors the reviewers check are:

----Background skills and experience
----Number of reputable journals that are accessed in WOS (very important)
--- WOS citations (excluding self-citation)
----H-index (in WOS)
----Your percentage as the first author and as the corresponding author in your papers accessed in WOS

Each of these parameters is allocated a point which varies across universities.

Hello professor. First of all I am currently a Computer Science PhD student in China. My research is on Graph Neural Networks based Sequential Recommendation. I would like your input on something please. The requirements for graduation is basically 3 SCI papers then a thesis ofcourse. My concern is will 3 papers be enough to compete for a postdoc position especially in European Universities? To add more context, the duration of the PhD is 3-4 years and so far I just completed 1.5 years. Again I have 2 papers under review, 1 at Knowledge based systems and the other at Neurocomputing. If 3 papers will be okay then I could graduate at 3 years. Thank you in advance

I work on graph neural networks for sequential data. Mainly how would sequential data be represented on graph and improving performance through using GNNs. Applications I am working on include recommendation systems and nlp.

wip7:
Thank you.

Sure sure Skip connections would assist in the model convergence, considering the nature of parameters we have, its will work mainly via Long skip connections .

What aspect of deep learning are you focused or which application do you direct it to?

Congratulations on yet another good publication. I see that the paper used a FC NN. I was just wondering whether techniques like skip connections, layer normalization could enhance the model. I am a PhD student in data mining and deep learning sir.

wip7:
Recent Publication (July 2020): Boron-Doped-sugar for fabrication of Energy Storage Device


Of recent, there has been increasing demand for efcient energy storage devices; supercapacitors have attracted signifcant attention as novel and competitive energy storage devices.

Approach: As natural biomass, sucrose sugar has been widely considered as a low-cost attractive carbon precursor. So, we synthesized porous carbon materials via a facile yet sustainable approach using sucrose as a carbon source and improved its electronic structure by doping with boron.

Performance: The optimum material took 275 seconds to fully charge and it took 973 seconds to completely dsicharged the energy stored; the assmebled cell was able to power small rotor fan connected to a series of led bulb.

Modeling: To understand the complex relationships between the materials and its performance, we applied machine learning-type approach via artficial neural network to obtain set of parameters that can generate optimum power.

Researcher: A graduating PhD student, Prof. Wip and other professor as supervisors.

This may help someone

Thanks

wip7:
Doctoral Position on Machine Learning / Data Analytics in Energy Markets & Systems


Experience: Knowledge in the following areas is advantageous:

---Skills in Data Analytics software (e.g. R, SPSS)
---Basic knowledge in Machine Learning
---Basic skills in Java or Python
---Knowledge about the energy system or energy markets
---Knowledge about the potential of digital technologies
---Basic skills in modelling and optimization

The University offers a PhD study program with a contract of 36 months, with a further possible 1-year extension if required, on a full-time basis (40 hrs/week). The University of Luxembourg offers highly competitive salaries and is an equal opportunity employer.

Fun fact. Bua and Dangote are from same LG in Kano State and that LG is among the LGs with highest infections

Kobicove:
How come is is that all the companies owned by northerners are donating to only Kano State?

Is it in Kano State alone that they make sales of their products?

OROSUNBOLB:
Why Kano now ? You are right here in Lagos where the virus is multiplying by every seconds yet Kano is your priority. Mr Dangote,are you a tribal bigot too ? Lagos needs similar facility, Enugu needs it,they need it in Osun etc. You make money from every part of the country so spread the benefits around sir.

he donated money to FG and Lagos State Government. Why is it wrong for him to donate to his home today. He still has blood relatives and most are in Kano. It is only logically for him to donate to Kano State as well

I am currently a PhD student in data mining. I once took a course on data science and I agree with you, data science is all about visualization. We once had a 4 hour lecture on making graphs look beautiful. Continue the good work...

Ejiod:
There are 2 or if not 3 field in data analysis
Descriptive/Explorative analysis
You need to master these skills
Excel,PowerBI,Tableau,Pandas,SQL,

Predictive analysis
This is where machine learning,deep learning and NLP comes in.This forms the real basics of AI.

Both are under data science. However its advisable to have those skills set under both so you have edge.If you are just doing machine learning without knowing any visualization tools or excel it's just you playing around.

Congratulations

pronto543:
Good morning esteemed colleagues,

I received an official GRA offer which includes full tuition waiver and fees from my potential advisor yesterday for fall 2019 at University of Kansas (KU). She notified me by mail on Thursday that she had secured 2 years GRA offer for me regardless of the outcome the fellowship offer I was nominated and applied for 8 weeks ago. The offer is in addition to School of Engineering scholarship I was awarded 5 weeks back.

I greatly appreciate the effort of everyone on this thread. Full funding mail will continue to flow in for all.
#fall2019 #yeswecan

This is very impressive indeed. Congratulations. But I think you should not just look at school names but also the research areas. Some schools might not have the specific research area you want. Again please consider safe schools.

user4321:
So I wrote my GRE Today,
For a little back story, I just graduated a little over three months ago, and got a job immediately as a software engineer, at a fast moving company, with periodic crazy deadlines. So, I had to squeeze in time during mornings at nights to prepare, and learn as much vocabulary as I could.
Fast forward to test Day, I arrived at Dragnet prometric 2 hours before the test, did a quick review, and was first on the line. Got the quant section first, let's just say, it was deadlier than I thought, too many geometry problems, and i loathe euclidean circle geometry a lot. I moved on to the verbal; few mistakes here and there, but I just basically free styled.
At the end of the test, I was assured that I had done very terribly, and was superbly afraid to click "report scores". Then I clicked
QUANTITATIVE - 163
VERBAL - 161
TOTAL - 324
I feel i did terrible in the quant, as i focused too much on the verbal during prep, but I hope to never write GRE ever again, I accept my 324 "laidat".
Profile
Bsc. Electrical and Electronics Engineering
GPA - 4.74/5
WES (UNOFFICIAL) 3.82/4.0
GRE - 324 ( Q-163 V-161)
SCHOOLS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY -PHD
UT AUSTIN - PHD
RICE - PHD
CMU AFRICA - MSC


cc- scholastica16 quoran

pierre92:
Washington State just called. Full funding(PhD). Fall 2019,yes we can!

congratulations

Abdulrahmon68:
Okay, Thanks, I just sent you a mail, kindly reply please .

thanks

Replied

Same school. Alternative you can register PayPal and link it with you GTbank master card

Abdulrahmon68:
Really? is it the same school ?

The response am getting is your card has been denied, have tried it several times

I just paid using GTbank master card

Abdulrahmon68:
I was told by GTBANK I can only use dollar card to pay for the application fee on platform of Cleveland State University.

Please can anyone assist me on that

Thank you. I have accepted. Its Electrical Engineering. Can I please PM you?

sheke01:
Hey buddy,

Congrats man, please waste no time in applying.

Am in Cleveland state university and if you have any question or doubts, please feel free to pm me.

I don't know the department the profs contacting you are in but if it's biology, I can vouch that it's genuine. Biology department in this school is a cheerful giver of funding once you have a decent profile. I have a Nigerian friend on full funding in the department.

The application fee is quite cheap ($40), they accept unofficial GRE results and unofficial transcript during application. TOEFL is waived for all applicants from Nigeria. You literally can start and finish the application in less than 30minutes.

All in all, the final decision is yours to make.

cheers.

Thank you Sir. Will do that asap.

Scholastica16:
They want you to apply to them. What is confusing about it? They probably had someone reject them and your profile makes them feel you are a great fit to replace the person. So when he saw your profile he spoke with the department chair and they offered you the provisional admission. Provisional because you have not yet applied and they want to make a decision soon.

Go to the school's portal, department etc, apply for the program and attach all attachables. I don't think there is anything confusing.

Time2win:
Apply to the department formally, then mail them on what next to do.

Thanks

Happiness67:
Congrats bro, Sky is the limit....

Thank you but what should I do first. Accept the offer or apply to the school. Again am waiting for other schools that I actually applied to

Happiness67:
Wow, teaching assistantship without applying to the program or did you submit any documents? How were you assessed?

I sent my CV, TOEFL and GRE to one of the profs in the department

Good morning all,
I recently sent a prof. at cleveland state university an email for an opening in his lab but he did not response. Just today I saw an email for the department Chair offering me a teaching assistantship. The offer came as an attached pdf file with my name on the letter. He also sent me an advert to apply to the department. On the teaching assistantship pdf, part of the conditions is for me to apply to the the school. I am just confused about the whole thing. He gave me 9 days to accept the offer.
First of all his email checks out on the department website. How should I proceed please.

Good morning all,
I recently sent a prof. at cleveland state university an email for an opening in his lab but he did not response. Just today I saw an email for the department Chair offering me a teaching assistantship. The offer came as an attached pdf file with my name on the letter. He also sent me an advert to apply to the department. On the teaching assistantship pdf, part of the conditions is for me to apply to the the school. I am just confused about the whole thing. He gave me 9 days to accept the offer.
First of all his email checks out on the department website. How should I proceed please.