The IEEE Information Theory Society Outreach Subcommittee Presents:
Round Table Mentoring, or
All the Mentoring You Need in 90 Minutes
Monday, June 26, 2017
18:30 - 20:00
Need help with your job search? Funding? Creating your own
network of mentors? Join the Outreach Subcommittee and other
ISIT attendees for hors d'oeuvres and lively discussion
of these and other pressing career issues. There will be eleven
parallel round table discussions, each centered around a different
topic, and each led by mentors with expertise to share. Stay at
one of the following tables for a deep dive or move from table
to table to discuss different facets of your career:
o Navigating the academic job market
Hessam Mahdavifar and Jing Yang
o Industry or academia?
Urs Niesen and Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali
o Navigating the tenure and promotion process
Michèle Wigger and Osvaldo Simeone
o The postdoc experience
Yanina Shkel and Lele Wang
o Life after tenure
Roy Yates and Aylin Yener
o Funding your research
Salman Avestimehr and Deniz Gunduz
o Effective teaching techniques
Henry Pfister and Stark Draper
o Branching into allied fields
Anand Sarwate and Kannan Ramchandran
o Effective paper writing
Sennur Ulukus and Vincent Y. F. Tan
o Writing your book
Raymond Yeung and Ruediger Urbanke
o Creating your mentoring network
The Outreach Subcommittee
Sponsored by the IEEE Information Theory Society Outreach Subcommittee:
Joerg Kliewer, co-chair <[email protected]>
Aaron Wagner, co-chair <[email protected]>
Tara Javidi <[email protected]>
Bobak Nazer <[email protected]>
Vincent Y. F. Tan <[email protected]>
Mentoring Event at ISIT
Jun 24, 2017