judging PIs

[Markerz]

So I have an option of working with someone who I think might be pretty good (not best in the feild but definitely far above average) or working at a school with lots of good people (who on average by statistics might be less "good" but will have more resources)

How do I judge if someone is a "rising star" kind of deal? I can look up confrence rankings on scrimjour, I can look at h indexes, but I am very very aware that I dont know whats "good". Students have mad respect for their advisors. Any ideas? My feild is Computer science but I am also trying to compere them to Computer Engineering

[rising_star]

I guess it depends on what you mean by "rising star". Do you mean someone who publishes a lot, gets cited a lot, or gets a lot of funding for their work? If so, you can easily look up and compare that information. But the intangibles are more important as a graduate student, by which I mean things like their mentoring, the placement of their grad students, how they run their lab group, etc. To get that information, you'll need to talk to current grad students about those people and the resources available to you at each school.