Enze "Alex" Liu

Computer Security and Privacy Researcher

Useful Links


Why PhD in Computer Science and How to Apply

  • Stanford CS Graduate School Advice
  • The Graduate School FAQ
  • Advice for Undergraduates Considering Graduate School
  • If you're considering graduate school in Computer Science
  • Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science
  • A Survival Guide to a PhD
  • Writing Your Graduate School Application Essay
  • Writing Personal Statements for Graduate School
  • Writing the Statement of Purpose
  • How to Write a Bad Statement for a Computer Science Ph.D. Admissions Application
  • Recommendation Letter Guidelines
  • A long, rambling, mostly personal corpus of advice on applying to Computer Science grad school
  • Advice for Prospective Research Students

    Advice For PhD Students

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  • My talk at UCSD on Surviving Grad School: Surviving Grad School When Your Advisor is Savage     [Screenshot]
  • Andrej Karpathy: A Survival Guide to a PhD     [Screenshot]
  • Dredze and Wallach: How to Be a Successful PhD Student     [Screenshot]
  • Lawrence Saul: How to get started on research in graduate school     [Screenshot]
  • Matt Might: 10 easy ways to fail a Ph.D.     [Screenshot]
  • Nick Feamster: Managing Your Advisor     [Screenshot]
  • David A. Patterson: How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia     [Screenshot]
  • Ronald T. Azuma: So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!     [Screenshot]
  • Wanda Pratt: The Graduate Student Survival Guide     [Screenshot]
  • Richard Hamming: You and Your Research     [Screenshot]
  • Jason Hong: Ph.D. Students Must Break Away From Undergraduate Mentality     [Screenshot]
  • Philip Guo: Advice for early-stage Ph.D. students (you have to find this one yourself)
  • Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau: Graduate School: Keys To Success
  • Matt Might: Productivity tips, tricks and hacks for academics     [Screenshot]
  • Nick Feamster: Storytelling 101: Writing Tips for Academics     [Screenshot]
  • Jennifer Rexford: Advice for New Graduate Students     [Screenshot]
  • Yoshi Kohno: Research Projects are Like Fractals     [Screenshot]
  • Michael Schillo: Hints for research students     [Screenshot]
  • H.T. Kung: Useful Thoughts about Research     [Screenshot]
  • Arvind Narayanan: The role of luck in academia
  • Dianne Prost O’Leary: Graduate Study in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences: A Survival Manual     [Screenshot]
  • Christos Kozyrakis: How to Have a Bad Career as a Stanford Graduate Student     [Screenshot]
  • Marie desJardins: How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors     [Screenshot]
  • UCSD's Computer Science and Engineering Department: How Is Your Advisor/Advisee Relationship?
  • Nick Feamster: Research Patterns     [Screenshot]
  • Zhiyun Qian: How to Look for Ideas in Computer Science Research     [Screenshot]
  • Chris Cramer: My Advisor is a Monster (What Do I Do?)     [Screenshot]
  • Noble, Dill, Pierce, Sipelstein, and Shewchuck: How To Survive as a Graduate Student     [Screenshot]
  • David Redish: How To Survive as a Graduate Student (comment)     [Screenshot]
  • James Larisch: Highly Opinionated Advice for (CS) PhD Happiness     [Screenshot]

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