To do a good work, of course! You should be making good progress in research and do a thorough work on every project you undertake. Sometimes it takes long time to write some program or to learn a new skill. Take time and do it right. This will pay off in your future research. Each acquired skill greatly speeds up your progress in the future. Invest a lot of energy and enthusiasm in everything you do, even if it is a class presentation. This will help you do a high quality work that everyone will appreciate.

Here are some specific, quantitative expectations:

• You should strive to publish at least 1-2 papers a year, to meet your 8-10 paper goal for the graduation within a reasonable time frame. This generally means that you should submit 3-4 conference and/or journal papers each year, on the average. There will be years when you are just coding and cannot publish a thing. There will be other years when your work matures and you are able to generate a lot of papers. But you should always work toward a paper and aim to submit a few papers a year at least. A code that works is great, but ultimately papers are the ones that count. You cannot graduate without a sufficient number of papers.
• I expect you to work to meet deadlines we both agree on. I am real serious about deadlines and will get upset if you miss a deadline for a paper, a presentation, a poster or similar deliverable.
• If it's a working day and you are not traveling I expect you to check your email frequently and reply to my messages within 30-60 minutes during working hours. If you are traveling and are being paid while on the trip, make arrangements to check your email every few hours or give me your cell phone number so I can contact you if I need something quickly.
• You should not miss our weekly meetings and you should arrive on time, prepared to discuss your work and report on progress. Make sure you do enough work during the week to have something to report.