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Interview with Professor Prof. Ho: How young people do research

About the direction of the topic

I am very impressed with the direction of the topic and on this particular issue. In the beginning of contact with the study, teacher Ho told us that the choice of topics have three questions you have to ask yourself, because we are engineering, is to do the basic research of application, the first question is there are some actual engineering staff really care about the problem you want to study; You are not fully aware of this problem, if you have been very familiar with the problem, know how to do, and even predict what the outcome is, this may not be a good thing, third, regardless of the reason, is not interested in the problem. If there are two answers to these three questions , it's worth your while, and that's what the teacher told me when I first came into contact with the study. From that time on to do research, and then after graduation to do their own teacher, I think this benefited me very much, because he did not tell me what particular problem to do, but he told me how to find a really important question.

To do a metaphor, like cooking has different tastes, do research also has different tastes, we have a word in Tsinghua, called to give the fish or to grant the fishing. What teacher is the most unusual is: he does not set the topic so that we do, but continue to use the way of Socrates, first of all, let us ask a question we want to do, he will guide the way to help us to determine whether this research problem is really important, is not really worth it. Through such constant feedback communication, we continue to refine our own research to do the taste. Back to your second question, the most special place I think is exercise we do research taste, this is difficult to quantify, can only through the day-to-day, and constantly interactive way to learn.

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