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Should take some efforts to standardize this thing. Can not rely on what has been remembered.

I noticed some top tier programs send interview invitation directly by POI but all the interviews are sent around the same time. Does this mean they had a meeting and were told, OK, you can go now! Is that it? Why they need to ensure every POI send invitation at the same time.

Same what? You also watching House?

Seriously. I am watching House right now. If I do not receive email any time soon... there is nothing much I can do about it.

Call'em. They sent last month. You have every reason to call dude!

EECS does not have interviews

I red that on reddit. Some wild story...

Which University are you referring to?

I think I saw a few interview and rejection of Cornell BMCB on the survey already.

I saw a ETH Control rejection on survey.

May I ask what kind of research are your POIs doing?

I am applying to the US. I just do not really enjoy the life here so much. I am a foreigner and find it hard to learn German. Plus I hate the food and can not cook every day. I am not applying to anything really in control theory. My background is not enough for that. I am apply computational biology and aiming at POIs who do dynamic systems modeling of biological, cellular or physiological systems.

The PhD salary in ETH is much much higher though.

Read some of his publications and say I have a new idea!

Any folks working on Semidefinite Programming?

Been there. Tend to get paranoid in application. I am in great peace in this cycle.

I can believe a penis pic have made the upstairs -10.

And you study optical genetics?

I was lucky enough to took Krause's machine learning in 2013 (he was teaching it in place of another professor, who is a remarkable information-theoeist himself, but widely considered a not-very-good teacher here). And I heard girls here like D'Andrea very much ('cause he is handsome). They are certainly top professors in your field. I am working with a control-theorist who is highly motivated by synthetic biology now.

I am actually currently a master student in ETH and working with one of the friends of Doyle and Murray's. Unfortunately I switched to control too late to be able to have a shot at Caltech.

Yeah but he still in prison.

I do not know you can binge watch friends. It is not like it has a continuous plot. (I watched every Friends episodes multiples times)

I have to break the wall here. So nobody wants to explain why I farm human? This is not a game that whoever explains loses.

Do you know John Doyle in Caltech? IMAO, he is truly a remarkable control theoretist (http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~doyle/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page) and is one of the pioneers in applying control theory in systems biology and neuroscience. Although I do not think he is affiliated with the CNS program. He has been advocating a so-called universal laws in recent years (you can find details on his website) and is basically claiming everything has designed trade-offs and can be studied by control theory (politics, climate change, cellular systems, ecology etc). Intoxicated by him, I truly believe this is where a lot of scientific fields should go in the future. (Especially this may make social science a real science). Unfortunately I am not good enough to go to Caltech. In any case, good luck to your application too.

You comment is very enlightening. I am not a engineer but I have been studying control theory the past two years and I believe this is where systems biology research should be heading to, or at least what I am interested in. For me how brain perform a task might be a more interesting question. But it may be too difficult now to really build a brain to test a theory. In any case, I hope you can build robotics that can perform complex tasks with a good trade-off of efficiency, accuracy and robustness. One day you may build a brain!