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Collection of advice for prospective and current PhD students

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!

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Advice for prospective students

General advice

Graduate School Advice by Stanford CS

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The statement of purpose

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 Cody Coleman

PhD statement by Sai Rallabandi

Visit days, choosing and advisor and school

Questions to Ask a Prospective Ph.D. Advisor on Visit Day, With Thorough and Forthright Explanations by Andrew Kuznetsov

How to Choose Your Grad School by Tim Dettmers

How to Pick a Graduate Advisor by Ben Barres

Advice for current students

PhD survival guides

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

Research

Writing

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

Blogposts

Reviewing

Reviewer Tutorial by CVPR 2022

How to write a good review by CVPR 2020

How to write a reviewer report by Stanley Chan

Advising students

Teaching

Fellowship applications

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

Organizing workshops and tutorials

Hitchhiker’s guide to organizing an academic workshop by Ben Eysenbach and Surya Bhupatiraju

Attending academic conferences

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

Academic job search

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

Computer science graduate job and interview guide by Wes Weimer, Claire Le Goues, Zak Fry, Kevin Leach, Yu Huang, and Kevin Angstadt

Academic job search advice by Matt Might

Memoirs

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

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