Ryan MarcusJun 12

This is your yearly reminder that anyone who publishes CS papers should have a personal website that lists their current position, research interests, publications, and email address.

If you don't, it's basically impossible for me to invite you to a PC, invite you to give a talk, ask a question about your work, or recommend you to others when asked.

Show threadNicolas HolzschuchJun 12
@ryanmarcus What he said. And, at the risk of stating the obvious: make it independent from your current employer, or easy to detach from. You will continue to exist after graduation, your university-affiliated web page (and e-mail address) probably won't. (YMMV, depends on the university obviously, expect the best, plan for the worst).
Show threadNicolas Holzschuch
@ryanmarcus In my opinion, a PhD student must have a permanent e-mail address and use it in all communications.
A PhD advisor who would not strongly recommend this would be highly unprofessional.
Jun 13 at 8:27amWeb
Show threadGeorgios BakirtzisJun 13
@nholzschuch @ryanmarcus This bit me in the past. During my job search I left an institution and they immediately deactivated my email. I talked to support for two weeks, who subsequently gave me access again, but the automated system deactivated the email address a day after since I was not affiliated anymore. Not only that but they bounced emails during the time of deactivation, so I have no idea if I got any interviews during that job search period at all...
Show threadRyan MarcusJun 13

@nholzschuch Absolutely -- emails are tricky since many conferences require the email listed on a paper to match your institution. But some institutions don't give permanent email addresses, as you said.

A good workaround I've found is creating a mail alias at the institution that can point to your institutional address while you are there, and can be repointed to your personal email afterwards.

But really, academic institutions need to support lifelong email addresses, or at least forwarding, for scientists. A new subdomain could be used to avoid polluting the undergrad email namespace.

Show threadJervenJun 16
@ryanmarcus maybe use orcid instead of depending on email addresses?
Show threadRyan MarcusJun 16
@jerven I love ORCIDs! Using your ORCID profile as your webpage could absolutely work, since you can list all the information you need there.