- Prepare slides: Slides provide structure for our meetings, and they give us artifacts to point at and examine. They also record your research progress for your future reference.
- Mind the details: Before the meeting, proofread your slides and sanity check your results in them. At best, errors are distracting. At worst, they introduce misconceptions that take time to correct, or they mislead our research direction.
- Begin with a list of topics we should discuss: This helps to budget our time.
- After the list of topics, review the big picture: Remind me about the research questions you're currently working on and any conclusions from previous meeting. I may have had many meetings since we last met, and a review helps me understand your work. After the big picture, you can show new results.
- Use time carefully: Focus on what I need to know about your progress and what you need feedback on. Bring clear, straightforward questions that I can help with.
- Avoid showing raw output from computational tools: You should improve the readability of results by creating your own tables and figures. For example, poorly labeled data (e.g., "0" and "1" labels) or excessive digits after decimal points reduce my ability to quickly understand your work.
- Avoid scrolling: When people show me lots of scrolling on a screen, I get motion sickness.
- If you wish, record our conversation or keep notes: Some students record our meetings so that they can review my feedback later. I'm typically fine with being recorded, but ask first. Some students take written notes; we can pause the conversation at any time if you need to catch up. Other students use neither recordings nor notes. Find what works best for you.
- Jia-Bin Huang’s tips for meetings
https://twitter.com/jbhuang0604/status/1418407079077842944
Principles for Productive Group Meetings
How to do experiments?
https://twitter.com/jbhuang0604/status/1647098218172252160
Time Management
Calendar. Not to-do lists.
Meeting Outline