I gave this keynote talk at ACM Compass 2024 titled: "Within and Beyond: Lessons in Computational Sustainability"
Summary
1. Test your biases
2. Choose lab and advisor carefully!
3. Collect data if you can; Build some baseline systems
4. Accessible articles help
5. Take all advise (including mine today) with a grain of salt
6. Reproducibility and tools go a long way
7. Impact may take time
8. Make most of conferences
9. The Process of Research: Read, Notes, Collaborate, Discuss
10. Think about scale …
11. Understand the domain better