Finding and Proposing a Ph.D. Dissertation Topic

What makes a good Ph.D. dissertation? How do you find a topic? When should you propose?

Nick Feamster
Great Research
Published in
9 min readFeb 12, 2021

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The crowning achievement of a Ph.D. degree is the dissertation—a document that captures a coherent body of research that contributes to overall knowledge in a particular field.

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Nick Feamster
Great Research

Neubauer Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago. The Internet, research, running, & life. https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~feamster/