General Rules
You should first read the General Rules to understand expectations and policies with regards to working procedures.
Welcome
Welcome to our group! You will be welcomed by our Social Officer. You should send us following for the access to our lab:
- Student/Staff ID
- Phone number
- NUS email address
Please also retrieve the PIN of your NUS card from NUS ITcare and save it to a place you know. You might need this PIN to access our lab after office hours.
Please see the contacts of our group members and there roles in contact. You should come to our lab and chat with your colleagues, your colleagues can provide you lots of local information and tips for living in Singapore.
Staff Portal
Staff should check more information from NUS staff portal:
- CHRS (HR related)
- CONCUR (claim and reimbursement)
- Staff Handbook
- NUService Hub (HR, finance, and purcurement request) etc.
Lab location
Our lab is located at NUS Engineering E4-07-11. You can find information about the campus on NUS campus map.
Life in Singapore
You can find useful information about life in Singpore here.
Getting a computer
Our group can provide you a laptop. It is highly encouraged to use MacBook as it facilitates other group members helping you if you run into problems. Configurations should be reasonable - mid-range CPU and good RAM, a SSD. Send your proposed configuration for approval before purchase and contact Procurement Officer for purchase.
Use used laptops first
Our group has accumulated lots of used MacBooks and most of them are in pretty good conditions and performance. Please use them first before buying new laptops. We will keep getting new laptops when the old devices are too old.
If you prefer Windows and Linux PC
Windows and Linux PC is acceptable. However, based on our previous experience, MacBook provides Microsoft Office, a native command line environment, high build quality, and super good battery life, so most people chose MacBook.
Group assets
Please note that all computers and laptops purchased with group funds are group assets. These are tagged with a university asset number and will be checked every year by the university. You are responsible for the computer and its accessories (e.g. charger, dongle, etc.) while you are using it. You should not sell or give them to others without permission from the group. If you leave the group, you should return the computer to the group. Check Leaving-the-Group for more details.
Setup your new computer
Install softwares and setup development environment. See computer guide. Please contact Computer Officer to help you if you have problems. If you don’t know much about Linux, please have a look at Setting up Linux Environment.
Setup NUS IT related stuff on your computer
2FA, Workspace One, and NUS VPN should be installed to access data when you are not on campus. Please find more details here for staff and student
NUS IT
NUS IT provides support for IT related issues. They also provide services such as HPC and server hosting. You can submit a ticket on ASK.
Setup your backup
Contact the Computer Officer and set up crash plan for your laptop. This should be the first thing you do after your initial Mac setup. See computer guide. You should also consider of using sirius our group backup machine.
Setup accounts on Github, OneDrive, Orion, and Clusters
Contact the Computer Officer to set up your accounts on Github, OneDrive, DropBox, Orion, and our clusters. Read the computer guide to understand what each of these does. Follow the instructions there to setup your cluster for computations. You can find more information about this part in facilities.
Data Security
Please have a look at the security page for tips about data security.
Setup printers
You can look at printers for details for printer setup.
Intra-group messaging, coordination and sharing
We use a number of messaging and document-sharing apps for internal-group communication platform:
- Message and communication: Microsoft Teams, Zoom
- Data sharing: Microsoft OneDrive (1TB for students and staffs), DropBox (2TB for staffs), GitHub (not for big files, but for code and small files), and our group cluster (for big files, see facilities for more details).
- Group Calendar: We have a shared calendar. Group events like group meetings need to be marked in
DengResearchGroup. For approved vacations, group members also need to enter the period of absence inDengResearchGroupcalendar before leaving (see vacation for more details). - Reference management: Zotero
- LaTex collaboration: Overleaf
Schedule meeting with your supervisor(s)
Please schedule a recurring meeting with your supervisor(s). Please use calendar to create a meeting (e.g. Outlook or Google Calendar). If you have any problem, please feel free to ask your supervisor(s) or colleagues.
Searching & managing literature
You should use Find Full Text: Proxy Bookmarklet for accessing literature. For reference management, we use Zotero and you can find the guide for Zotero by NUS Library.
Practices and procedures
Briefly read Writing to get a very quick overview of the standards that are expected for papers and presentations. It is extremely important that you come back to this list when you write your papers and do your presentations. Under no circumstances should you submit papers or presentations that do not meet these minimum standards.
Guidelines of Ph.D. and Postdoc
Here are some guidelines of doing Ph.D. and Postdoc.
Acknowledgement
This webpage used content from Prof. Piero Canepa’s website.