The document provides advice for PhD students on key aspects of success in their research. It emphasizes finding a unique research problem, thoroughly reviewing related work to distinguish your idea, setting clear boundaries and structure for your research through a framework. It also stresses the importance of experiments to validate your model, systematizing your findings in a paper, and keeping an open mind while receiving feedback to continually improve your research. The overall message is that PhD students should focus on organizing their research efforts by properly scoping, planning and communicating their work.

1. Key to Success for PhD StudentAli RidhoBarakbahKnowledge Engineering Research GroupSoft Computing LaboratoryDepartment of Informatics EngineeringElectronic Engineering Polytechnic Institute of Surabaya - ITS

2. What does PhD mean?PhD means “Philosophiae Doctor (Doctor of Philosophy)”PhD means “You find something new in a research field”PhD means “You are able to organize your research”PhD means “Strategy to pass the requirement level of knowledge”PhD means “Back to zero”PhD means “You have nothing”PhD means “Permanent Head Damage” 

3. Waiting for youFinding ideaCommunicationDefine problem Related worksResearch boundaryResearch flowResearch frameworkExperimentsSystemization

4. Finding your ideaI want to make ….I try to use this algorithm for …I am interesting to make research in ….I develop a new approach to solve …….

5. WHO CARES?

6. Communicate your ideaGAP

7. Don’t be a perfectionistIf you suppose that you’re a perfectionist, you don’t want others criticizing youYou will be a pampered boy. Everything you say, you hope that others will say okay

8. Start from problemFind an unique problem for your topicDon’t think sequentiallyThink a bizarre case that others will say “it’s impossible”

9. Keep track of previous research worksResearch works by othersRELATED WORKSYour Ideadistinguish your research…

10. Set a boundary of your researchyour topicProblems of your research

11. Fix flow of your researchDescribe your problemDiscuss related worksClaim your uniqueness

12. Create framework of your researchYour first model to overcome the problem of your researchConsists of some parts those you can concentrate on work step-by-stepEasy to understand in order to communicate what you do with your researchEasy to manage your research by time

13. Do experimentsConfirm your modelSet datasets and parametersAnalyze your resultsClaim the performance

14. Systemize your research paperCommunicate your paper in easier way to readersBe honest in writing your paperOpen mind for reviewsKeep working and improving on your research

15. Good Luck