Literature Review and Research Context Questions

Demonstrate command of the scholarly landscape relevant to a research problem, including key papers, predominant approaches, and the current state of the art. Describe how you stay current through conferences, journals, workshops, and seminars and how you search for and curate related work. Show the ability to critically evaluate prior methods, assumptions, and reported results, note reproducibility or baseline selection issues, and identify clear gaps or open questions that motivate new research. Interviewers may ask how you position your contribution relative to existing work and how literature findings influenced your experimental design and claims.