Resources
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Graduate School
While the inspiration for creating this list was my direct mentees, I share it publicly to hopefully help other current or prospective graduate students who are seeking resources about fitting into a graduate program.
- MeToMeToo: Advice my twin sister was giving me when I was a PhD student, that we then captured in a blog.
- Matt Might’s blog: As a PhD student, I found many of these articles helpful, especially those in the section “Graduate School”.
- Devi Parikh’s blog: Much of her advice and personal anecdotes resonate with me.
- Michael Nielsen’s Principles of Effective Research: Lots of awesome advice on how to be an effective member of a research group.
- Eric Gilbert’s advice for his PhD students: Lots of awesome advice on how to be an effective member of a research group.
- Jon Froehlich’s advice for his PhD students: Lots of awesome advice on how to be an effective member of a research group.
- How to do research, write papers, and give talks: Valuable practical advice!
- How to write a great research paper: Valuable practical advice!
- PhD fellowship opportunities: Lists from CU Boulder, University of Washington, and Princeton University.
- Resources to help prep for a (machine learning) interview: A great list of resources and examples and some coding challenges.
Academic Career
Since I only have the perspective so far of an Assistant Professor, this list is for current and aspiring Assistant Professors, spanning resources that help me as an Assistant Professor and resources that I believe helped my mentees who similarly embarked on careers as an Assistant Professor.
- 7-Year Postdoc: Advice I have loved since day 1 of becoming an Assistant Professor.
- Vijay Chidambaram’s Assistant Professor Handbook: Advice I wish I had discovered in my early days as an Assistant Professor.
Computer Vision Research
While the inspiration for creating this list was my direct mentees, I share it publicly to hopefully help other individuals who are searching for resources about how to fit into the computer vision research community.
- How to write a good CVPR submission: Written by Bill Freeman.
Accessibility Research
The following are resources that have inspired me in my journey as a researcher in designing AI that interprets visual information with and for people with vision impairments. Perhaps you will find some inspiration as well!
- TED Talk from Amnon Shashua about Orcam
- TED Talk from Anirudh Koul about Microsoft’s Seeing AI app
- TED Talk from Chieko Asakawa about developing many technologies, which can also benefit her as a person who is blind.
- Saqib Shaikh shares about his journey in advancing technologies, including as a person who is blind.
- Annual Sight Tech Global Conference: free annual conference sharing about new technologies that are creating a more accessible world for people with blindness and visual impairments.
- Annual VizWiz Grand Challenge Workshop: annual workshop hosted by my team which consists of invited talks and panel discussions between researchers, industry developers, and individuals with disabilities to (1) hear about the state of modern vision-based technology and research, (2) track computer vision’s progress on shared public dataset challenges, and (3) identify open technical, social, and ethical challenges.