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  1. Hello there, There are four tips I can give you. First, you need to avoid the "running through your resume/cv" process in your statement of purpose. This particular essay is meant to illustrate your preparedness, interest, goal, and independent. Thus, ask yourself these questions: 1. Why PhD? 2. Why research? 3. Why am I interested in the topic/field of study? Second, focus on building or revolving your experience to your statement of purpose. The three above questions should allow you to develop some sort of a story. However, the first two should be implicit or understood through reading your SOP. My third tip is to take a look or search up if there are any requirements on the SOP (e.g., word count, page limit, etc.) for each institution, but you can generally keep it 900 to 1100 words or 2 PDF pages. I believe it would be good for you to write it in LaTex as well. My final tip to you is to start your introduction with the particular topic you are interested in spending the next four years in research. For example, my interest is language, machine learning, and NLP in general. I began with ... Language is the bridge that links human beings together. With it, we externalize the outputs of our internalization through our voice and writings based on a convention of syntax, forming a depiction of our pragmatics. I believe, by understanding the interconnected neural processes that enable our ability to comprehend and learn our language, we can uncover the mystery behind our intelligence. My goal is to study and improve the attention gating mechanism for the recurrent neural network to alleviate problems pose by multiword-expressions (MWEs) in natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Note that, my experience is in cloud computing, but I done a lot of independent research on my own time to gain a good insight on a specific topic within NLP which developed my interest. In my essay, I focused on making very clear that I am serious and independent as a potential PhD student. Anyway, the next paragraph after the introduction would be focusing on why the particular topic is salient to you and your field, and why it attracts you to the university. From then on, you can go over your experience and how it prepared you for PhD and brought you to your interest. I hope this helps!
  2. Very good profile. You need to focus on your statement of purpose and you should be fine. If you have an interest in PhD, you should apply as well.
  3. One more thing, your thesis sounds like the sub-topic within AI on plasticity/evolutionary with neural networks. Take a look at NEAT developed by Stanley (University of Central Florida; he's not longer a professor there but it is worth taking a look at).
  4. Since you are at a new school, focus on building relationship with professors quickly. You need a minimum of 3 LORs and try your best to get one publication out asap. By the way, I think your GRE score is great, especially your writing score. I think you will be able to get into at least one of your interest schools and get funding as well. With the GRE out of the way, you can simply focus on LORs, SOP, and a publication. My tip for writing your SOP is to focus on a research topic that you are interested about. You can talk about what you did but use your experience to build a story that led to your research interest. Keep in mind about the word count limit on the paper as well.
  5. The second. But you should reach out to both in my opinion. I heard you can be a member of multiple labs. Good luck
  6. Any idea on how does the school determine if one is underrepresented? Since I am an immigrant with parents making on the lower end of income and I was recently naturalized, would I be underrepresented? I am only asking for others to know if they qualify in the future.
  7. Hello, I have 2 years of experience in cloud computing and HPC. I would recommend reading their documents online and checking out examples and containerized software on docker hub. Now, it is best to distinguish between a VM and a container to learn what a container is... VM requires a hypervisor to emulate, you can think it as more hardware intensive with the benefit of security. A Container operates on top of the OS and thus, eliminating the hypervisor layer and it is essentially software oriented. One great benefit is that software rules the hardware. Container can easily be replicate, move, redeploy, test, etc. Of course, it is not as secure as a VM. You can check out Kata-container for better security (container encapsulated in vm). There are a lot of benefits of using containers over VM and since cloud computing is a growing field, I am unable to give you a good source that covers all topics.
  8. Hey man, Much love to you and please do not see yourself as a failure. You need to get a different job. I am not sure if a PhD is good for you by the way and let me explain. I am similar to you. I did not go to a good college for my undergrad and yet, I decided to apply to various PhD programs and got accepted to 2/5 and still waiting on the other three schools. Both schools are of R1 while my undergrad institution is not ranked at all. So yes, I am very happy. However, my decision to embark on the PhD journey is not due to money nor fame. I want to learn more about the brain, how we learn, and how to emulate such process. Thus, I want to train myself to be a scientist. You mentioned that you went to Rutgers. It is a great school and you have proven yourself to be a good student to get into such an institution. My point is your job sounds horrible and you deserve better. I do not know what is good for you but I do know that you are capable and if you want to continue your education, then perhaps start again with another master to build connections. Or, apply to positions at high tech companies, I think you will find much great enjoyment in a new job, one that is intellectually hard. Also, I would recommend doing research on your own time. I been working on things on my own and writing papers that I hope to publish this summer. Good luck and take care!
  9. If you can retake the GRE, give it one more shot. However, get that paper out/published ASAP! It will help and focus on your SOP.
  10. Hey there, I do not have a proper source for you but I can provide a general idea that may help you. First, you should be able to quickly crank out a simple web page and with a search bar via java script. Then, create a back end and fill it with a bunch of relevant sources. I would recommend those sources be PDF files of research articles. Now, when storing such files, you can have their abstract as a feature of their entry in the database. With the abstract, you can experiment with query search via deep learning. For training files, I would recommend reading up on information query articles published on ACM and IEEE. Make sure you take a look at the data given via the article. For the neural network architecture, I would recommend experimenting with BiLSTM and Convolution Neural Network for capturing overall context and sequence analysis. This can take a month if you work hard and have some experience with deep learning. Else, you can dumb it way down...
  11. @GeorgiaTechPhd Thank you for your inputs! I would also like to know if what I put on github matters at all?
  12. Hello there ?, I'm seeking to apply for Computer Science PhD next fall. Here are the list of questions that I have : Does it matter if I have research experience on a different topic than what I'm interested in? I am interested in ML/NLP but most of my experience was done on cloud computing I have written multiple research papers but most were from individual studies. Only one is currently being reviewed for publication, I am unsure whether if it will get published tbh. Does my non-published papers matter and is it a good idea to list them on my CV? Tips on reaching out to Professors at target Universities I feel awkward when communicate via email especially at someone I don't know I also have read up some of their papers and I would like to ask them a few questions regarding about it. How should I approach this? Tips on writing statement of purpose How to brag but not sound egotistic....? Is it a good idea to talk about individual research/studies that I've done on my own? Does your undergrad school matters when applying for doctoral program in other Universities? Tips on CV? Thank you!
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