Hi there,

I am a second year phd student, and joined directly from B.Sc. Major: Computer Science.

Since i joined the school, i've experienced a number of research works, and have taken a number of courses.
This has caused a shift in my research taste: I am no more really interested in what I joined the lab for. The problem is that among to other supervisors which share my new interest, one does not reply my emails(!), and one works on special types of problems, resulting in small payoff for moving to the new. To make it clear, it's quite common to change labs/supervisors before third year in our school, as there is little chance of making sense of the world while having courses and qualifying exams.


I am facing another issue as well:
I have lost the trust in my supervisor. While being old, he is quite new to the field and sticks to a the system he has recently developed. The rest of the group are working on problems related to the system. According to him, the system design is based on 'intuition,' which I believe is absurd, compared with other proposed systems, all of which have certain solid design goals. The problems the group works on, have sophisticated solutions in related fields. I feel he doesn't have the vision and I dont wanna go into the well with he holding the rope.


I'm thinking of neglecting his presence, and work as if I am working with one of those busy supervisors which you might see once in six months.

I am also thinking if downgrading to masters might be a good option.

Any comments are greatly appreciated.


Thanx in advance