How Far Are You From a Top Ph'D Graduate

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How Far Are You From a Top Ph.D Graduate

• Zhen Zhang

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Topics of Investigation

• To be a top graduate, how many top publications
  should we have?
• Is such a definition of top area sensitive?

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Of Interest To Everyone

• Graduate
• How far are you from a Start ?
• To-be-graduate
• Which area do you want to pursue ?

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Survey Process

• Object Number of publications
• Subject Students (40 students)
• Dimension Areas
• DB, OS, Network, AI, Graphics
• Constraint
• Top publications
• Senior students 5th above
• Top universities

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More Specifically

• DB
• Stanford, Wisconsin
• SIGMOD, VLDB, SIGIR, ICDE, WWW
• OS
• MIT, Berkeley
• SOSP, OSDI, HotOs, ASPLOS
• Network
• Berkeley, MIT
• SIGCOMM, INFOCOM, MobiCom, ACM MobiHoc
• AI, Machine Learning
• CMU, Stanford
• AAAI, IJCIA, CIKM, ICML
• Graphics
• Berkeley
• SIGGRAPH

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Publication distributions
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Explanations

• It is easy to become a star in DB
• Because you do not need many top publications
• Or
• It is hard to become a start in DB
• Because it is hard to publish paper in top
  conferences.
• Perhaps
• Years to graduation matter
• AI has lots of SSSSenior graduates, especially MIT