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[iwantphd]

Hi all, would appreciate all your opinions... Attached below is a summary of my profile:

University: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Bachelor: Mechanical Engineering (Specialized in Mechatronics)

Not under GPA system (my rough calculation: overall 3.3+, last 2 years 3.7), top 15% of the cohort (my guess), out of 800 people.

Master: Computer Engineering (Research: Computer Vision)

GPA (3 subjects, A-, A-, B-): 4/5 or 3.3+/4. CMU system: 3.67, depending on the GPA system used. Possible letter of top 10-15% from my boss, my boss is quite famous in this area, he has overall citations of more than 500 times and good connection with the top researchers in this field.

Work experience

Research staff in university, area: computer vision, 1 year +. Two attempts to rank 1 conference, planning for another 1.

Publication

Podium presentation in a top rank worldwide conference, usually less than 5% acceptance rate, <50 selected out of thousands of submissions. Second Author/Third Author (Boss, my colleague then I, depending on how boss arranges, second if he is not the first). It is a project level submission after few years of work.

Assuming there is another rank 1 conference paper.

I guess these conferences are comparable to journal with impact factor of 5-6.

Planning to apply to robotics/computer vision (mechanical/ee/cs faculty). Maybe apply to Texas Austin/Georgia Tech/Harvard/CMU/Toronto/Mcgill/UBC...

I actually made a similar post before, but without publication that time, conference results just released this morning. Kinda excited by the results:)

Thanks a lot.

[iwantphd]

just a short update, my friend with kinda similar profile makes it to georgia tech, but he is without master, bachelor+research work.

comments pls~