Bring the question you keep thinking about. We will work through the gap, proposal, experiment, IEEE paper, research poster and conference submission—one practical stage at a time.
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It is built through decisions: what is missing, what you will test, what the evidence means, how you will explain it, and where the work belongs.
This series makes those decisions visible. No vague “academic writing tips.” We will use real research artefacts, IEEE templates and practical exercises that move your own work forward.
Each session ends with something concrete you can carry into the next one.
Leave with a research problem you can explain, defend and turn into a proposal.
Move from a good question to a method that another researcher can follow and test.
Understand what belongs in every section and produce it in a publication-ready workflow.
Find the right conference, read its call for papers and avoid preventable submission mistakes.
Built around the four published workshop stages—combining short framing talks, hands-on LaTeX and literature labs, structured worksheets and live project pitches.
Professor · CMU-Africa
Professor · CMU-Africa
Associate Teaching Professor · CMU-Africa
Assistant Teaching Professor · CMU-Africa
Assistant Teaching Professor · CMU-Africa
Assistant Teaching Professor · CMU-Africa
President · IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES)
IEEE IES · Hubs & Nodes
IEEE IES · Membership
IEEE IES · Conferences & Paper Submission
IEEE ComSoc Representative
Workshop Chair · IEEE IES Representative
Check in, collect materials and seating. Short welcome from the IEEE IES, MTT-S and ComSoc Rwanda chapters.
Framing for the day: a paper is built through a sequence of decisions, not written in one sitting. Introduces the four workshop sessions.
What counts as a research contribution versus an interesting topic. How to recognise a defensible research gap rather than a general area of interest, and the difference between a research topic and a research question.
Search strategy across IEEE Xplore, arXiv, Google Scholar, Papers With Code, Web of Science and the ACM Digital Library. Screening and organising what you find, mapping what is already known without being overwhelmed by volume, and using tools like VOSviewer.
Turning a gap into research questions, objectives and a stated contribution. Drafting a one-page research brief that connects problem, method and expected evidence.
Matching a method to the research question across quantitative, qualitative, simulation, experimental and computational approaches. Before extending anything, reproduce an existing baseline first—whether cloning a code repository, rebuilding a circuit or testbed, or reimplementing a published model.
Planning experiments, choosing datasets or test conditions, defining baselines for comparison and setting evaluation criteria before collecting data. Includes designing ablation studies—changing one component at a time to show why it matters, not just that it works.
Reading results without overstating conclusions. Measuring performance beyond a single accuracy number—such as latency, throughput, memory footprint or power draw. Keeping results reproducible with experiment tracking and version control, and turning evidence into readable tables and figures.
The job of each section: abstract, introduction, related work, method, results, discussion and conclusion—and what IEEE reviewers look for in each one.
Working in Overleaf or a local LaTeX setup with the IEEEtran template, with notes on ACM and other conference template families. Setting equations, algorithms, tables, figures, citations, the reference list and clean system or architecture diagrams.
Translating a paper into a technical poster that communicates the contribution in about three minutes: layout, hierarchy and visual clarity.
Remarks from the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) President on entering the global IEEE research and publication community.
Each of the 5 selected projects pitches their research problem, method and results to the full room and receives live Q&A and feedback from the judging panel.
Session 4 continues right after · Judges deliberate during Session 4 so results are ready by Closing
Reading conference scope, tracks and technical committees. Presentations across the IEEE IES, MTT-S and ComSoc landscapes—covering Hubs & Nodes, Membership, Conferences and paper submission.
Online talks · Milos Manic (IES) · Yajun Pan (IES) · Luís Gomes (IES) · Stefano Giordano (ComSoc)
Recap of the day's outcomes: research gap, method plan, manuscript workflow, submission plan, poster and peer network. Announcement of the Research Showcase winners, follow-up opportunities and closing coffee break.
The goal is progress you can point to—and a clearer path to the IEEE research community after the workshop ends.
We will introduce the IES, MTT-S and ComSoc conference landscapes, show you how to read calls for papers and share relevant opportunities with the community as they open.
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