The research project is intended to bridge your specialization and your thesis. This means that before embarking on your research project, you need to have some idea of what your thesis is going to be about.
You do not need to know exactly what your thesis will be about, but you need to have some idea within which part of your specialization it will likely be in. Knowing this part will also help you determine which supervisor will work better for you. At the same time, the Research Project allows to experiment with and adjust your thesis topic, and, if necessary, supervisor.
A typical question that we get asked is “What is it that makes a thesis topic good enough?”
Because of the diversity of both Computer Science and ITU Computer Science Department researchers, this question is difficult to answer generally. However, it must have the following properties:
- It must be interesting to you.
- It must be interesting to your supervisor.
- It must use tools, languages, techniques and theories that you find interesting.
- It must advance “what we know” in some way, although not necessarily by much.
- t must be a topic within Computer Science or applications of Computer Science.
We emphasize that you do not need to know exactly what the topic is going to be, but you need to know what you like to work with, which topics of your specialization you find interesting.