申请季算是提早结束了，心里的一块大石头也终于落下了。
有感于最近在申请国外研究所的时候受惠于留学版良多，想说趁记忆还新鲜记录一下。
虽然我的申请经验并不太算具有启发性，但 data point 总是不嫌多，
如果这篇文能为往后申请者在 train human learning model for application
时能帮上一点小忙的话我花了好几个小时打的这篇文也就有价值了。
[Program]
- MS EE/ECE in US * 10, with track in ML or Signal
- PhD Finance in HK * 1
[Admission]
- Purdue M.S. ECE 2019/02/12
(AI & ML)
- UMich M.S. ECE 2019/02/21
(Signal & Image Processing & ML)
- Cornell M.Eng. ECE 2019/03/05
(Signal Processing)
- UCSB M.S. ECE 2019/03/26
(Communications Control & Signal Processing)
- HKU Ph.D. Finance 2019/03/22, WL to offer
(PGS funding, approx. 20w HKD/yr for 4 yrs)
◎ Date indicates the time getting the "recommended for admission" letter,
or the official offer letter, whichever is earlier.
[Rejection]
Too early, none at this moment, will update later
[Pending]
- UCLA M.S. ECE
- UCSD M.S. ECE
- CMU M.S. ECE
- Columbia M.S. EE
- UPenn M.S. EE
- UWashington M.S. ECE
[Decision]
- HKU Ph.D. in Finance
[Background]
- HKU B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering with minor in Finance (2014-2018)
GPA: 3.61/4.3 (First Class Honours)
+ Dean's Honours List 2014-2015
+ HKU Foundation Scholarships for Outstanding International Students
- UCLA Exchange in Electrical Engineering (2017)
GPA: 3.83/4.0
[Test Scores]
- TOEFL: 111 (R/L/S/W: 30/30/23/28)
- GRE: 327 (V/Q/AWA: 157/170/4.0)
[Research Experience]
- RA @ HKU Faculty of Business and Economics, 2015 ~ 2018
- Intern @ Academia Sinica IIS , Summer of 2016 & 2017
- Undergraduate Final Year Project @ HKU , 2018
[Working Experience]
- Software Engineer @ an HFT startup @ TW , 2018/11 ~ 2019/01
(company laid off 80% due to bad financial condition)
- Data Scientist @ high mountain bank @ TW, 2019/01 ~ Present
[Publication]
None, but some working papers
- Working Paper in Finance
Topic: Apply topic modeling to journal articles in finance
- Undergraduate dissertation
Topic: Image denoising via CNN
[Letter of Recommendation]
- HKU assist prof in finance * 11 (1 for HKU)
- HKU prof in EE * 10
- UCLA adjunct prof in CS * 4
- HKU lecturer in English * 6
- UCB chair prof in finance * 1 (for HKU)