Useful Stuffs:

Research

• Life Lessons from the First Half-Century of My Career – by David A. Patterson

• PhDs from the Faculty's Perspective – by Jason Hong

• Advice for Grad Students – by Stephen C. Stearns

• How to Read A Paper – by Srinivasan Keshav

• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

Writing

• Checking list for writing – by Sachine Sapatnekar

• Quick and Dirty Instructions for the New ACM LaTex Template

• Heuristics for Scientific Writing (a Machine Learning Perspective)

• A log file on common writing mistakes of students – by Soung-Chang Liew

• LaTeX notation reference

Presentation

• How to Give a Good Short Talk – by Charles F. Van Loan

• How to Give a Talk – by Srinivasan Keshav

• How to Do a Presentation - 5 Steps to a Killer Opener

Review

• How to Write a DAC Paper Review – by Andrew B. Kahng

• How to be a good reviewer – by CVPR 2022 Program Chairs

Conference / Journal Rankings

As a reference, here I list some conference or journal rankings, particularly for computer engineering field.

• csranking.org

• CCF ranking

• google scholar ranking

Conference Deadlines

• AI Conference Deadlines

• CS conference list

• HPCA-2027: Jul. 24 (abstract); Jul. 31 (full paper)

• AAAI-2027: Jul. 21 (abstract); Jul. 28 (full paper); Jul. 31 (supplementary)

• ASPDAC-2027: Jul. 11 (abstract); Jul. 18 (full paper)

• ASPLOS-2027 (April): Apr. 15 (full paper)

• ICCD-2026: May 29 (abstract); June 05 (full paper)

• EMNLP-2026: May 25

• MLCAD-2026: May 16 (abstract); May 23 (full paper)

• NeurIPS-2026: May 04 (abstract); May 06 (full paper)

• ICCAD-2026: Apr. 07 (abstract); Apr. 14 (full paper)

• MICRO-2026: Mar. 31 (abstract); Apr. 07 (full paper)

• COLM-2026: Mar. 26 (abstract); Mar. 31 (full paper)

• ECCV-2026: Mar. 06 (full paper)

• UAI-2026: Feb. 25 (full paper)

• KDD-2026 Feb cycle: Feb. 01 (abstract); Feb. 08 (full paper)

• ACL-2026: Feb. 05 (full paper)

• ICML-2026: Jan. 23 (abstract); Jan. 28 (full paper)

• IJCAI-2026: Jan. 12 (abstract); Jan. 19 (full paper)

• DAC-2026: Nov. 11 (abstract); Nov. 18 (full paper)

• CVPR-2026: Nov. 06 (abstract); Nov. 13 (full paper)

• ISPD-2026: Sep. 21 (abstract); Sep. 28 (full paper)

• ICLR-2026: Sep. 15 (abstract); Sep. 24 (full paper)

• DATE-2026: Sep. 07 (abstract); Sep. 14 (full paper)

• ASPLOS-2026 (Summer): Aug. 13 (abstract); Aug. 20 (full paper)

• AAAI-2026: Jul. 25 (abstract); Aug. 01 (full paper); Aug. 04 (supplementary)

• HPCA-2025: Jul. 25 (abstract); Aug. 01 (full paper)

• KDD-2026 July cycle: Jul. 24 (abstract); Jul. 31 (full paper)

• ASPDAC-2026: Jul. 04 (abstract); Jul. 11 (full paper)