Poster Presentation Guidelines

Your poster should have the same sections as a scientific article (with the abstract being optional), but each section should be summarized to include just the main points and important figures that are needed to describe the work being done.

• Abstract (Optional): An abstract is a summary of your work in one paragraph. It could contain a couple of sentences introducing your problem and why it should be studied, a couple of sentences explaining how you did your machine learning analysis, and a couple of sentences explaining your results.

• Introduction: The introduction to your poster is where you introduce the problem you are trying to solve and how you will solve it. You should explain the data set you are working with, why the problem you are trying to solve is important, and what methods you are using to solve the problem.

• Methodology: This section is also called “Methods” or “Experimental". Here is where you explain how you carried out the theoretical models, experiment, and data analysis. It should be to the level of detail that someone can read this section and exactly recreate what you did, but for a poster you can use brief bullet points. 

• Results and Discussion: In the results and discussion section, you present your results from performing your analysis and discuss if the experimental results match the predicted theoretical models. You can also use this space to explore and plot the data set if you find this helpful in explaining your results. You can also use this space to discuss factors such as the time taken for the analysis and experiment, changes that had to be made to the methodology to make it work, and any problems you encountered performing the analysis. This section should contain graphs and/or tables with captions to help with your explanations.

• Conclusion: The conclusion is where you reflect on whether you could fully solve the problem you set out to do. What are other avenues of research that could be performed using the results you discovered? If you could not fully answer the problem you set out to, what could future researchers do to improve your results?

• References: This should be a list of formatted citations for all references you used in this work. You should also include in-text citations where appropriate.

All images and tables included in the poster must be numbered and captioned.

You must include references for all information and images you did not create directly. You must provide in-text citations and a reference list at the end of your paper.