| Name | Plan Date | Program Status |
|---|---|---|
| John Q. Public | 2017/08/21 | 1st Year |
Use this section to state your objectives in the program, e.g. "My objective is to attain a PhD by date X, researching topic Y, and to obtain a job doing Z in industry/academia."
| Trimester | Major Objectives | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [X] | Fall 2017 | ||
| [ ] | Spring 2018 | Choice of Major Profesor, Complete core course requirements and Colloquium requirement | |
| [ ] | Summer 2018 | First research publication | |
| [ ] | Fall 2018 | Formation of POS Committee | |
| [ ] | Spring 2019 | Complete area proficiency requirements. Second research publication. | |
| [ ] | Summer 2019 | Third research publication | |
| [ ] | Fall 2019 | ||
| [ ] | Spring 2019 | Complete research proficiency examination. Fourth research publication. | |
| [ ] | Summer 2019 | Fifth research publication. | |
| [ ] | Fall 2019 | ||
| [ ] | Spring 2019 | Complete preliminary examination. Sixth research publication. | |
| [ ] | Summer 2020 | Seventh research publication. | |
| [ ] | Fall 2020 | ||
| [ ] | Spring 2020 | Complete final defense. Eight research publication. | |
| [ ] | Summer 2020 | Successful industrial job hunt. |
Use this section to set your plan for the next trimester, it should relate to your program goals, and listed major objectives for your program plan. What will you accomplish during the next trimester? Use action verbs to specify demonstrable and measurable outcomes for these objectives. Good objectives are meaningful, measurable, distinctive, and aligned/consistent with your plan of work for the trimester. Good verbs are ones like compile, identify, create, plan, revise, analyze, design, select, utilize, apply, demonstrate, use, explain, predict, assess, compare, critique, outline, or evaluate.
Set your concrete deliverables for the next trimester. Concrete deliverables all have outcomes which can be shared as a document and include reports, test results, code, demonstrations, notes, etc.
| Trimester Week Beginning | Major Objectives | Major Deliverables |
|---|---|---|
| 08/14 | ||
| 08/21 | ||
| 08/28 | ||
| 09/04 | ||
| 09/11 | ||
| 09/18 | ||
| 09/25 | ||
| 10/02 | ||
| 10/09 | ||
| 10/16 | ||
| 10/23 | ||
| 10/30 | ||
| 11/06 | ||
| 11/13 | ||
| 11/20 | ||
| 11/27 | ||
| 12/04 | ||
| 12/11 | ||
| 12/18 | ||
| 12/25 |
List the major risks to forward progress, followed by your plans to mitigate these risks. Identify possible challenges to your work and show you have thought out how to make progress when you encounter these challenges.
- Risk: My proposed algorithm may not perform better than the state of the art.
- Mitigation: I will fully profile the execution time, identify the bottlenecks encountered by both my algorithm and the state of the art, and provide an analysis of how to overcome these challenges. I will give good theoretical background for my assumptions.
- Risk: Data set X may not support the analysis we intend to perform because of Y, and Z.
- Mitigation: Alternative data sets Q, R, and S are also available, though they are less ideal due to T, I propose altering my analysis with U to account for these difficulties.
Use this section to discuss your progress since the last trimester. Which objectives did you meet? Which did you not? Which deliverables did you meet? Which did you not? Why did you meet, or miss your goals? How does this impact your plan? If you missed objectives or deliverables, how do you propose recovering?