Tips

Research

• Life Lessons from the First Half-Century of My Career – David A. Patterson
• PhDs from the Faculty's Perspective – Jason Hong
• Advice for Grad Students – Stephen C. Stearns
• How to Read A Paper – Srinivasan Keshav
• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

Writing

• Checking list for writing – Sachine Sapatnekar
• ACM LaTex Template Guideline
• 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 – Soung-Chang Liew
• LaTeX notation reference

Presentation

• How to Give a Good Short Talk – Charles F. Van Loan
• How to Give a Talk – Srinivasan Keshav
• How to Do a Presentation - 5 Steps to a Killer Opener

Review

• How to Write a DAC Paper Review – Andrew B. Kahng
• How to be a good reviewer – 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

2026

• ICML-2026: Jan. 23 (abstract); Jan. 28 (full paper)
• ACL-2026: Feb. 05 (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: Jul. 24 (abstract); Jul. 31 (full paper)
• ASPDAC-2026: Jul. 04 (abstract); Jul. 11 (full paper)

2025

• Agents4Science-2025: Sep. 05 (full paper)
• MLCAD-2025: May 23 (abstract); May 30 (full paper)
• ICCD-2025: May 25 (full paper)
• SIGGRAPH-ASIA-2025: May 16 (abstract); May 23 (full paper)
• EMNLP-2025: May 19
• NeurIPS-2025: May 11 (abstract); May 15 (full paper); May 22 (supplementary)
• ICCAD-2025: Apr. 14 (abstract); Apr. 21 (full paper)
• MICRO-2025: Apr. 04 (abstract); Apr. 11 (full paper)
• ICCV-2025: Mar. 03 (abstract); Mar. 07 (full paper)
• ACL-2025: Feb. 15 (full paper)
• KDD-2025: Feb. 03 (abstract); Feb. 10 (full paper)
• ICML-2025: Jan. 31 (full paper)
• IJCAI-2025: Jan. 16 (abstract); Jan. 23 (full paper)
• ATC-2025: Jan. 07 (abstract); Jan. 14 (full paper)
• ISCA-2025: Nov. 15 (abstract); Nov. 22 (full paper)
• DAC-2025: Nov. 12 (abstract); Nov. 19 (full paper)
• CVPR-2025: Nov. 08 (abstract); Nov. 15 (full paper)
• MLSys-2025: Oct. 30
• ICLR-2025: Sep. 27 (abstract); Oct. 01 (full paper)
• ISPD-2025: Sep. 22 (abstract); Sep. 29 (full paper)
• DATE-2025: Sep. 15 (abstract); Sep. 22 (full paper)
• AAAI-2024: Aug. 07 (abstract); Aug. 15 (full paper); Aug. 19 (supplementary)