By Paul Liang (pliang@cs.cmu.edu), Machine Learning Department and Language Technologies Institute, CMU, with help from many friends at MLD and LTI, CMU. If there are any links I missed, please let me know!
Awesome CS PhD application advice by Jed Yang
CS PhD the greatest hits by Angela Jiang
List of PhD reflections by Stephen Tu
Thread of PhD application resources by Chaitanya Joshi
Useful computer vision PhD resources by Yana Hasson
Checklists for Stat-ML PhD students by Aaditya Ramdas
Graduate School Advice by Stanford CS
Applying to PhD Programs in Computer Science by Mor Harchol-Balter
HOWTO: Get into grad school for science, engineering, math and computer science by Matt Might
Applying for a PhD in NLP by Zhijing Jin and ACL Year-Round Mentorship Session
Machine Learning PhD Applications — Everything You Need to Know by Tim Dettmers
Demystifying ML PhD Admissions to US Universities by Hima Lakkaraju
Some Suggestions on writing your statement of purpose by Jennifer Mankoff
Graduate School Personal Statements by Christopher Fletcher
Inside Ph.D. admissions: What readers look for in a Statement of Purpose by Nathan Schneider
How to Write a Bad Statement by Andy Pavlo
Tips and Tricks, How-To Guide for Grad School SoPs by Erica Weng
Graduate School Statement of Purpose by MIT EECS
How to write personal statement for graduate school application by Stanley Chan
Writing a Google AI Residency Cover Letter by Katherine Lee and Ben Eysenbach
Examples:
PhD statement by Sai Rallabandi
How to Choose Your Grad School by Tim Dettmers
How to Pick a Graduate Advisor by Ben Barres
Graduate School: Keys To Success by Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
The illustrated guide to a PhD by Matt Might
How to Be a Successful PhD Student by Mark Dredze, Hanna Wallach
Time Management by Randy Pausch
Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student by Manuel Blum
Finances for CS PhD students by David Anderson
A Survival Guide to a PhD by Andrej Karpathy
15 pieces of advice I wish my PhD advisor had given me by Jim Kurose
How to write a good CVPR submission by Bill Freeman
Ten Simple Rules for Mathematical Writing by Dimitri Bertsekas
Notes on writing by Fredo Durand
How to write a (hopefully good) paper by Martin Vetterli
Reviewer Tutorial by CVPR 2022
How to write a good review by CVPR 2020
How to write a reviewer report by Stanley Chan
Examples:
NSF personal statement by Victoria Dean
NSF research statement by Victoria Dean
Facebook fellowship statement by Paul Liang
Facebook fellowship statement by Devendra Chaplot
Facebook fellowship statement by Sai Krishna Rallabandi
Hitchhiker’s guide to organizing an academic workshop by Ben Eysenbach and Surya Bhupatiraju
Nine things I wish I had known the first time I came to NeurIPS by Jennifer Vaughan
NeurIPS 2018 through the eyes of first-timers by Fangyu Cai
Checklist for faculty job-hunting in Stat/MLby Aaditya Ramdas
Tips on the interview process by Jeannette Wing
Getting an academic job by Michael Ernst
Academic job search advice by Matt Might
I loved graduate school by Peter Bailis
What my PhD was like by Jean Yang
How to get a Ph.D. in computer science if you're me by Chris Martens