The topic presentation is a short presentation to introduce all the faculty to your interest. From the feedback you receive, you can finalize your final topic and decide which professors might best fit your committee.
You may present any topic of your choice. The topic might change after the feedback or later in the process.
The presentation is 10 minutes long, followed by a 5-minute Q&A session.
The presentation is free-format, but typically a PPT is expected.
If you use slides on the cloud (Figma or Google Docs), ensure they work well before the presentation.
The date of the presentation and the exact schedule/order of the talks will be notified shortly prior to the designated day.
Hold at least two meetings with the committee members for progress checking:
First meeting: Introduction and discussion of the thesis content
Second meeting: Review of the revised content
Use the following form for collecting the feedback from the committee members.
Submit the Second Progress Check Report to the department office, including feedback from the committee members.
Students who intend to graduate should submit a PDF with their complete thesis using the system. The thesis should be a complete draft. The only section that is allowed to be incomplete is the discussion.
⚠️ If a thesis is not submitted for review or lacks substantial parts, it will not be reviewed, and therefore the student will not be able to proceed to the defense. This implies that the student will not be able to graduate in the expected term.
⚠️ 논문이 심사를 위해 제출되지 않았거나 중요한 부분이 부족한 경우, 심사가 이루어지지 않으며, 따라서 학생은 논문 방어를 진행할 수 없습니다. 이는 학생이 예상된 학기 내에 졸업할 수 없음을 의미합니다.
The defense presentation is your final thesis presentation in front of your advisor committee members.
Submit the final version of your thesis using the submission system at least one week before your planned defense presentation. The submission should include a version with highlighted changes made after receiving the GreenLight, as well as a clean version without highlights for readability. The system will ask for the following material at submission:
Final version: PDF of the final version of the thesis.
Thesis with highlighted changes: PDF with the final thesis with the changes highlighted in the text.
Summary of changes: a summary explain how comments from reviewers were incorporated in the final thesis.
Optional supplementary material: any additiona material as PDF
The format and procedure of the defense presentation remain the same as before.
All defense presentations will be scheduled for the same day (pre-announced by the department office). If a student or a committee member is unable to attend on such a date, the student and their advisor should independently schedule an alternative date.
The presentation should be about 15 minutes long and the Q&A session is typically between 15-20 minutes.
Using the KAIST Graduation system, download the appropriate graduation evaluationform and prefill it with your title and your personal information.