Where to get started if you want to publish papers in Neurips,ACL,ICLR/A* conferences [R]

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I'm a Ai engineer with about 2 years work experience, but let's just assume that I was a undergraduate student just starting out where would I begin so that I can publish a A* conference paper at some point. Learn python -> Learn ML & Maths -> Read other research papers -> find a topic ? -> choose a question try to run experiments and get results to write them down in a paper ? For context : I'm trying to get in MS CS programs for Fall 2028 in states with the plans of doing a PHD after in a top