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发信人: bartonchen (闲云野鹤), 信区: Flyingoverseas
标  题: 转一个文章，有关选导师的！
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2002年01月14日13:39:59 星期一), 站内信件

发信人: holland (导师), 信区: EE
标　题: A big name advisor?Re: 选导师是选名气大的，还是选方向火的？--请大虾指
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发信站: The unknown SPACE (Wed Jan  9 15:31:00 2002) WWW-POST
It seems to me both research direction and research quality means a lot if you
wanna go to academia. Advisor with a big name will be a plus. Ppl who go to
faculty the top universitis are either working in very promising directions or
have done top research in some well known problems/areas. Some of them may
have a big name as their advisor but most of them are just working with junior
ppl. Some of them are even from so-so universities. It might not be a good
idea to work with a well established professor until he is still active in
research and still devote most of the energy into research, or you are well
prepared for research and have a bunch of clever ideas, i.e. genius:)
Do not trust well established professor title and other titles like IEEE too
much when you choose the advisors. Read their recent publications, track the
status of their former advisees and talk to researchers in your areas.
Talking about research only, my two favorite choices:
1. well established in your field, still active in research, tenured, already
produced a bunch of well respected researchers. You can track where their
student went after they graduated. Did they go to top research labs?
Are there any formmer advisees who is star or rising star in your field,
particularly if you wanna go to academia and top research labs in industry.
2. active and smart assistant professor, have ideas, may do well known Ph.D
thesis(rising star in your field).
I have experiences to work with both two. Unfortunately the first one left our
university first and then I picked the second one. I am very happy to work
with both of them.
I used to work with a BIG name with lots titles. But he become less active in
research. I have also experience with associate prof, who got tenured and then
become less active in research. These two happened in my first one and half
years in graduate school.
Another issue you many consider is if you can be in good lab environment. Can
you learn a lot from your fellow students in the same area. DO they have
regular lab meetings?
In your second choice, I am wondering if your advisor spent somewhere before
he came to your universities. Otherwise, it is impossible to spend 10 years
in universities and still do not get tenured yet:) Another question is why he
is still assistant Prof.. Associate Prof. will be more reasonable, even though
he may spent several years in industry.
Tough decision! Good luck.
【在 vpdn (Layer 2 VPN) 的大作中提到: 】
: If you want to be a professor, try A. His fame will give you more opportunity
:  than the real work.
:  There are several good examples around here.
:  if you want more $ in the industry later, go with B. the area (but probably
:  not him, 10 yrs still an assit. prof? maybe he established several start-ups
:  during the dotcom era. that is a different story lah.) will make you
:  accomplished.
:  : A. Professor, National Academy of Engineering member, 60年代拿的Ph.D.,
名气很大，得奖无数，可是其方向尽管现在还可以，但10年后可能就没什么搞头了，有点
强弩之末的味道；
:  : B. Assitant Professor, 基本上什么头衔也没有，到今年已是他拿到Ph.D.的第十年了
:  : 可他的研究课题比较hot, 手头上的funding也很多；
:  : 如果让你选择此二人中一位做你的Ph.D. advisor, 你会选择谁？
:  : 请大虾们谈谈自己的看法吧，谢谢！

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