After completing the Candidacy Examination successfully, the PhD in Computer Science candidate must prepare a thesis proposal that outlines, in detail, the specific problems that will be solved in the ...

The dissertation proposal and the specialty exam serve different purposes and should be viewed as separate activities, even though often executed concurrently. The dissertation proposal marks the ...

The main purpose of the thesis proposal defence is to enable the Ph.D. student make a position statement with respect to the thesis problem, outline a hypothesis and present a timeline for completion ...

Advisor: Xingwei Wang, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, UMass Lowell Xuejun Lu, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, UMass Lowell Hengyong Yu, Professor, ...

Hadi Amiri (Advisor), Assistant Professor, Miner School of Computer and Information Sciences, UMass Lowell Hong Yu, Professor, Miner School of Computer and Information Sciences, UMass Lowell Tingjian ...

Students should begin to think about possible dissertation topics early on in their doctoral career. Keep a file of topics on which you imagine yourself writing. Over the years of course work and ...

The Weatherhead School's PhD in Management: Designing Sustainable Systems program is designed for our DBA students who want to build on their research and produce a doctoral dissertation that meets ...