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If you do not have your committee selected you will have a hold placed on your registration the following semester.</p> <p>You may submit your special committee members online in your <a href="https://studentcenter.cornell.edu/">student center</a>.</p> <h2>Guidelines for selecting your special committees:</h2> <p>Rules: your committee needs to have at least 3 members:</p> <ul> <li>a chair, the main person advising your research</li> <li>a second CS field member who is not in the immediate area of your advisor.  There are no course requirements associated with this minor.</li> <li>a member of a field other than CS, representing an outside minor which you will do.</li> </ul> <p>An example of how your committee should look in Student Center if you choose the minimum of three members:</p> <ol> <li>Faculty Member - Role - Concentration/Plan</li> <li>Faculty A - Chairman - Systems</li> <li>Faculty B - Minor - Artificial Intelligence</li> <li>Faculty C - Minor - Applied Math</li> </ol> <p>*Optional</p> <ol> <li> Faculty D - Co-Advisor - Systems</li> <li> Faculty D - Minor - Systems</li> </ol> <p>If your co-advsior is not in the same concentration as your chair, you do not need a CS minor member.  Per the graduate school this will satisfy your committee requirements (Advsior, Co-Advisor, outside minor)</p> <p>From the Code of Legislation: <em> “A co-chair has the same rights, responsibilities, and obligations as a single special committee chair; both co-chairs must fulfill all chair requirements. Doctoral committees with two co-chairs require only one additional minor member.” </em> </p> <p>*Please do not use the plan "Computer Science", you must use the concentration/plan in which your member represents such as Artificial Intelligence, Systems, etc.</p> <p>Suggestions:</p> <ul> <li>it is perfectly fine, in fact advisable, to have more than one faculty from the same area on your committee. This will lead to having more than 3 member committees, which is great! Extra committee members are an extra source of advice, and likely an extra source of recommendations.</li> <li>Committees can be changed any number of times later - all you need is a signature from everyone on your committee stating that they are OK with the change. Although it becomes a bit more difficult to change your committee after your A exam.</li> <li>You may also have members of your committee who are not field members. You need to have 3 who are field members, so a non-field member would be a 4th. 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