Suggestions for PhDs
Curated references for new (and not-so-new) PhD students.
Being a PhD
- How to Be a Successful PhD Student — Mark Dredze & Hanna Wallach.
Research statement
- Sample research statement (PDF) — Jonathan Frankle.
Fellowships
- NSF GRFP — for undergraduate / graduate.
- NSF CSGrad4US.
Reading papers
- How to Read a Technical Paper — Jason Eisner (JHU).
- Advice on reading papers & posters — Jonathan K. Kummerfeld.
- ACL Year-Round Mentorship.
- JHU CLSP NLP Reading Group.
Seminars
Writing
- Shitty First Drafts (PDF) — Anne Lamott.
- Writing for an Audience (PDF) — Alin Tomescu.
- Four Steps to Better Writing (PDF).
- Thread on academic writing — Tobias Klein.
- LaTeX & writing style guide — Jordan Boyd-Graber.
- Politics and the English Language (PDF) — George Orwell.
- NSF Proposal outline (PDF).
- Write the Paper First — Jason Eisner.
- How to not write a paper — Alinush.
- LaTeX template — Jordan Boyd-Graber (table formatting).
- Everyone Can Write Better — book.
- Crafting Papers on Machine Learning — book.
Talks
- How to Give a Good Colloquium (PDF) — AMS.
- How to Give a Great Research Talk — Microsoft Research.
Job talks
- Dr. Karen’s Rules of the Job Talk.
- MIT EECS — Faculty Job Talk Tips.
- MIT Comm Lab — Faculty Job Talk.
Research practice
- Closed AI Models Make Bad Baselines — Hacking Semantics.
Job market & faculty applications
- Guide for the CS/IS Tenure-Track Job Market — Shomir Wilson.
- The Job Market (Parts I, II, III) — Kira Goldner.
- Faculty Application Advice — Sylvia Herbert.
- MIT Comm Lab — Faculty Application.
Compute
- Where to get GPUs — Emily Liu (X/Twitter).