Instructions and examples for Semester Projects at EURECOM.

• Share your report and slides since they are in progress, so that we can comment on them.

  • This will give you the possibility to improve them BEFORE the defense, to have a better grade.
  • Use shared drives! Attaching documents to emails is a bad practice for storage and environmental reasons.

• Cite properly figures and text coming from other works in both slides and report.

  • In the report, it would be better to have a proper reference section at the end, and refers to papers using numbers (e.g. [1]) or authors' names and year (e.g. (Grover et al, 2016)).
  • The references should precisely mention authors' names, title, publication venue, year. Example:

  A. Grover and J. Leskovec. node2vec: Scalable Feature Learning for Networks.
  In: ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2016.
  

  • If you are using LaTex, the best option is to use a bibfile, including the bib record directly downloaded from the journal website (e.g. look at the Export citation option on any ACM paper)

• Use your own words as much as you can.

  • Including some sentences coming from other works is allowed (with moderation) if properly referenced
  • Copying a sentence and putting synonyms here and there... it is still copying.
  • Copying is bad! Referencing is good!

• Your report should include all relevant links to your project results: Google Drive folders, Git repositories, Colab notebooks, etc.

• Make clear what your contribution is.

  • If you replicate a paper, make clear what are your ideas and what are original authors' ones.

• How long should a report be? As long as it needs! 😄 Don't focus on the page length, but take as much space you need to well describe your work. It is a bad practice to add unnecessary sentences just for making your report longer.

• Add a "Use of AI Tools" section (see the AI policy below)

• The presentation should last 30 minutes and is followed by a round of questions.
• Be didactical. The audience may not be familiar with your project and with the topic you studied. Be sure to define precisely all specific terms.
• Add slides number. They will help who is listening to you to make precise questions during the defense.
• Cite properly figures and text coming from other works in both slides and report.
  • On slides, it is ok to have a shorter reference, e.g. A. Grover et al. node2vec: Scalable Feature Learning for Networks. KDD, 2016
• Rehearse your presentation before, for checking the time and the expressions that you use. Change the presentation to serve your speech.
• Avoid going on and back on the slides, instead structure them in order to have a linear storyline.
• Don't overfill the slides. In each slide it should be clear: where do I need to put my attention? Sometimes less content help the focus of the listeners. A clear exception are result slides, where we need to have tables with different scores to be able to compare the results.

✅ Permitted use: AI tools may be used for project work, reports, and materials. BUT the use must be transparent, responsible, and documented.

• Disclosure. Clearly state when, where, and how AI tools were used/ Applies to: text drafting, coding, figure generation, literature summarization, language refinement
• Documentation. Include a section titled “Use of AI Tools” in your report:
  • Which AI system was used
  • For what purpose
  • How the output was verified
• Accountability. Students are fully responsible for accuracy, originality, and integrity. AI output must be reviewed, adapted, and critically evaluated.
• Ethics & Integrity No fabricated data, falsified results, or misrepresented sources. Undisclosed use = breach of academic integrity.

AI can assist you, but you must stay in control, transparent, and accountable.

Some good examples are included in the examples folder. Use them for taking inspiration, but then find the best way to produce report and slides specifically for your project.