2. Ph.D. Clinic
● Motivation for Clinic
● What clinic is?
● What clinic is not?
● Why this clinic?
● How it will work?
● Disclaimers / Consent
3. Motivation
● Quality of Ph.D. student’s work in the country can be
improved
● Students need help with
○ Conducting literature review
○ Narrowing down on research problems
■ Cutting down expected risks and maximizing expected reward
○ Time management, especially when Ph.D. work can be time bound
○ Weaving a good story around the results
○ Writing a paper & understanding reviews from conferences/journals
○ Connecting with right people, other researchers, other students
working in the domain
○ Presentation skills
○ Choosing an appropriate conference and journal to submit
4. What Clinic is?
● Get concrete / constructive suggestions on student’s work
● Student can pick the mentor from the available ones
● Get pointers to methodologies, tools, metrics, entire
gamut of things mentioned in slide 2
● All interactions will be online, through a platform
preferred the student and mentor
● Mentors will decide on their available slots, and the
students can pick and interact
● Students should treat it more like meeting some
researcher in a conference and having a longer
conversation with her / him
5. What Clinic is?
● To help develop skills to present the work in different
formats, like in industry and in academia
● Students fill the form and Mentor will decide on the slot
and students to interact with
○ A student can interact with Mentor once or twice a month, more than
this will be harder for Mentor
6. What Clinic is not?
● A service where students can get their work done
○ E.g. Re-writing the paper
● It is not a one-stop-place which will solve all your
Ph.D. roadblocks
● Focussed only on Work and not general grievances in Ph.D.
life, etc.
7. Why this Clinic?
● There is no substitution for your thesis Advisor. But
it’s always good to have more eyes (Mentor) and feedback
on your work
8. How it will work?
● Very similar to a Doctor’s visit!
● Student fixes an appointment by email / through a form
● Joins the call, discusses the work, gets feedback
● Complete the feedback form after the session
9. Disclaimers / Consent when the student comes to Clinic
● Mentors
○ Are broadly interested in helping the students
○ Are NOT interested in becoming co-authors of the papers
● Students
○ It is the student’s responsibility to inform the thesis advisor about
attending the Clinic
○ No responsibility will be taken by the Mentors for students not
following the guidelines / consent
○ Please use this opportunity judiciously, respect Mentors’ time and
skills
