Program
EECS/ECE/EE PhD for 2017 Fall
Research Area
Information theory
Admissions
UC Berkeley EECS PhD
Princeton EE PhD
UIUC ECE PhD
UCSD ECE PhD
USC EE PhD
Michigan ECE PhD
Toronto ECE PhD
(Note: all with funding; only UCSD no interview)
Rejections
Stanford EE PhD
MIT EECS,SES PhD
Caltech EE PhD
Decision
UC Berkeley
Background
Education:
BS in Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Sep 2012 ~ Jun 2016
* GPA: 4.23/4.30
* Ranking: 2/190
Test Scores:
* TOEFL 118 (R:30 L:30 S:29 W:29)
* GRE 333+5.0 (V:163 Q:170 AWA:5.0)
Publications:
* Third-author ISIT 2016 *1
* Third-author Allerton 2016 *1
* Co-first-author ICASSP 2017 *1
Awards and Honors:
* Presidential Award *5
* Invited to CUHK information theory winter school in 2016
* 全国能力竞赛一等奖
* 进过数奥选训营
* 台湾国际科展数学课三等奖
因为本身没有什么 awards/honors, 所以最后放上三个高中时期的奖项...
Research Experience:
* Networked Information and Communications Lab, NTU (Sep. 2014 - June 2016)
* Multimedia and Machine Learning Lab, Academia Sinica (Mar. 2015 - May 2016)
Working Experience:
* Jul 2016 ~ May 2017: 资讯专长教育替代役 at 新北某国中
Recommendation Letters:
* 1 from NTUEE advisor
* 1 from AS advisor
* 1 from NTUEE teacher