1. Ph.D Milestones Jin Zhao 23 Nov 2012

2. Jin Zhao 23 Nov 2012 / 10 Timeline 2 WING, NUS 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 7 Initial Exploration Topic Formulation Sub-topic Exploration Wrapping up Year Qualifying Exam Stage Milestones Graduate Research Paper (GRP) Thesis Proposal Pre-Defense, Submission / Defense?? Pre-Submission

3. Jin Zhao 23 Nov 2012 / 10 Year 1: Initial Exploration Starting Point: Text-to-Expression Linking User Study in Math – Meta-search – Resource Categorization – Text-to-Expression Linking Qualifying Exam 3 WING, NUS

4. Jin Zhao 23 Nov 2012 / 10 Year 2: Initial Exploration Prototype Implementation in Math – Resource Categorization Graduate Research Paper – "Enhancing the Search for Math Materials" Publications – "Math Information Retrieval: User Requirements and Prototype Implementation" (JCDL 2008) – "Towards a User-Centric Math Information Retrieval System" (TCDL 2008 Bulletin) 4 WING, NUS

5. Jin Zhao 23 Nov 2012 / 10 Year 3: Topic Formulation and Sub-Topic Exploration Thesis Proposal – Version 1: "A User-Centric and Math-Aware Information Retrieval System – Version 2: "Domain-Specific Information Retrieval using Bayesian Networks: Resource Categorization and Text-to-Construct Linking" Readability (Math) eEvidence Project (Nursing) – User study in Nursing 5 WING, NUS

6. Jin Zhao 23 Nov 2012 / 10 Year 4: Sub-Topic Exploration Readability (Math and Medical) – Iterative Computation eEvidence Project (Nursing) – eEvidence System – Key Information Extraction Publications – "Domain-Specific Iterative Readability Computation" (JCDL 2010) – "eEvidence: Information Seeking Support for Evidence-based Practice: An Implementation Case Study" (AMIA 2010) – "Improving Search for Evidence-based Practice using Information Extraction" (AMIA 2010) 6 WING, NUS

7. Jin Zhao 23 Nov 2012 / 10 Year 5: Sub-Topic Exploration Internship – University of Colorado at Boulder – User Interface for DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Education) Readability – Probabilistic Iterative Computation Key Information Extraction Text-to Construct Linking 7 WING, NUS

8. Jin Zhao 23 Nov 2012 / 10 Year 6: Sub-Topic Exploration Key Information Extraction – Joint Inference Text-to-Construct Linking – Expression Linking + Construct Ranking Publication – "Exploiting Classification Correlations for the Extraction of Evidence-based Practice Information" (AMIA 2012) Thesis Pre-Submission – "Graphical Modeling for Resource Categorization and Text-to- Construct Linking in Domain-specific Information Retrieval" 8 WING, NUS

9. Jin Zhao 23 Nov 2012 / 10 Year 7: Wrapping Up? Thesis Pre-Defense – The Missing Piece: System Evaluation User Study (In Progress) Thesis Submission / Defense ?? 9 WING, NUS

10. Jin Zhao 23 Nov 2012 / 10 Lessons Learnt Find your direction. Keep track of your progress. Persist! 10 WING, NUS