What area of research is your focus/did you apply for?

[JohnP1]

Just trying to get a feel what everyone is looking for.

[nickspoon]

You forgot the (obviously, since it's mine) most important area of CS, theory!

[JohnP1]

You forgot the (obviously, since it's mine) most important area of CS, theory!

 

Oops sorry!  I'm seeing if I can modify the poll..

[Nita]

yup, theory is now "others"

 

looks like many are interested in ML/AI. Social networking effects ?

[Snoq]

Networks and Computer Architecture miss too!

[ssw1n]

Missed Distributed and Parallel Computing Area too !

 

It's a shame, but are the Systems guys forgotten these days with the rise of fancy AI/Machine Learning/Data Sciences Areas?

[soshy]

And with all those misses, "Other" is still losing to the other options...

[TheInfelicitousDandy]

NLP

[Pauli]

I totally love how the poll doesn't explicitly list Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), one of the most popular fields in computer science.  Several of the "fields" listed in the poll are actually subfields within a larger field.

[detante]

I'm applying for Robotics, although that means at least one of my applications was technically under ECE instead of CS.