AI lab professor shares PhD admissions tip: recent students from your own school are the best benchmark
prof_kamilov · x · 2026-09-17
A US professor running an AI lab in computational imaging shares an unwritten rule of PhD admissions: look up students from your own university who recently entered US PhD programs via LinkedIn, Google Scholar, and department websites, then examine where they applied, which labs they joined, and what they accomplished beforehand. He argues they are a far better benchmark than random successful applicants found online.
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