awesome-phd-advice
Collection of advice for prospective and current PhD students
https://github.com/pliang279/awesome-phd-advice
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Advice for current students
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
- How To Make A Plan To Attend International Academic Conferences
Blogposts
- PhDLife Blog - A collection of blog posts from Warwick University
Fellowship applications
- Tips for the NSF GRFP Application by Danielle Perry
- NSF Fellowship by Alex Lang
- Tips by Tara Safavi
- [Extensive NSF collection by Alex Lang - personal.pdf), [Paul Liang (Facebook)], [Devendra Chaplot (Facebook)], [Sai Rallabandi (Facebook)]
- NSF GRFP Advice by Christine Liu
Job search
- Tips for Computer Science Faculty Applications
- How to Ask for a Letter of Recommendation
- Interview Questions for Computer Science Faculty Jobs
- The N Things I wish I Knew Before the Job Search, by Maria Ebling, Guerney Hunt, Lily Mummert, Bill Tetzlaff, and John Davis
- The academic job search for computer scientists in 10 questions by Nicolas Papernot and Elissa Redmiles
- Checklist for faculty job-hunting in Stat/ML by 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
- The Ph.D. Job Hunt - Helping Students Find the Right Positions by Ed Lazowska
- Academic job search advice by Matt Might
Networking
Organizing workshops and tutorials
PhD survival guides
- So long, and thanks for the PhD by Ronald T. Azuma
- The illustrated guide to a PhD by Matt Might
- How to Be a Successful PhD Student by Mark Dredze, Hanna Wallach
- 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
- The Tao of PhD: Thriving in the Allen School’s Graduate Program by University of Washington
- 10 tips for PhD students by Daniela Witten
- Expectation Setting by Eugene Vinitsky
- Graduate School: Keys To Success by Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
- 15 pieces of advice I wish my PhD advisor had given me by Jim Kurose
- Time Management by Randy Pausch
Presenting
Reading
Research
- How to Do Great Research by Nick Feamster and Alex Gray
- How to Have a Bad Career How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia by David Patterson
- Useful Thoughts about Research by H.T. Kung
- You and Your Research by Richard Hamming
- Advice on Research and Writing by Mark Leone
Reviewing
Teaching
Writing
Advice for prospective students
General advice
- Applying to PhD Programs in Computer Science by Mor Harchol-Balter
- Undergrad to PhD, or not - advice for undergrads interested in research by John Hewitt
- 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
- Student Perspectives on Applying to NLP PhD Programs by Akari Asai, John Hewitt, Sidd Karamcheti, Kalpesh Krishna, Nelson Liu, Roma Patel, and Nicholas Tomlin
- Machine Learning PhD Applications — Everything You Need to Know by Tim Dettmers
- Demystifying PhD Admissions in Computer Science in the US: a Guide for Vietnamese and International Students by ThanhVu Nguyen
- Ph.D. Applications: FAQ by Noah Smith
- Quora answer on the admission committee process by Scott Fahlman
- Reflecting on CS Graduate Admissions by David Anderson
- The PhD in CS: Getting There and Being Successful by Michael Hilton, Janet Davis, and Ian Ludden
- A PhD is Not Enough: A Guide to Survival in Science by Peter Feibelman
- Demystifying ML PhD Admissions to US Universities by Hima Lakkaraju
- Graduate School Advice by Stanford CS
- A long, rambling, mostly personal corpus of advice on applying to Computer Science grad school (for UWCSE students) by Justine Sherry
Statement of purpose
- Inside PhD admissions: What readers look for in a Statement of Purpose by Nathan Schneider
- How to Write a Bad Statement by Andy Pavlo
- 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
- [Cody Coleman - statement-cmu.pdf), [Sean Kross], [Zahid Hossain], [Jean Yang]
- Some Suggestions on writing your statement of purpose by Jennifer Mankoff
- Tips and Tricks, How-To Guide for Grad School SoPs by Erica Weng
- Database of Example PhD SOPs by the CS-SOP initiative
- Graduate School Personal Statements by Christopher Fletcher
- Graduate School Statement of Purpose by MIT EECS
Visit days, choosing advisor and school
Memoirs
Job search
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