## Advisor Style & Mentorship He has a unique advising style, where he pairs each incoming PhD student with a senior one. He closely monitors the performance of the junior student until they get familiar with the technology involved. Once trust and familiarity builds up, he becomes more hands-off and allows good amount of flexibility to the students. He is accessible only if the student knows how to approach him. He hates long emails and usually does not respond to them. However, he really checks short messages where the student's concern are explained briefly and tries his best to respond. Usually, these issues get response within a few hours. When papers are close to the deadline, he can spend hours of time to ensure that it is sent with the best possible version. He can also spend hours checking that his students are presenting the content well not only at conferences, but also at job talks. This supervision is very strict, but it is made always to improve the prospects of the student. Overall, a very large-hearted person who serves as an example to his students.
## Expectations for PhD Students Expectations in the lab are relatively high. While only 3 papers are needed to publish, he really expects to see them go to good venues. Almost all the work involved requires building of actual testbeds, which can be time-consuming and frustrating for people who do not enjoy . He tends to respect students time, unless there is a submission deadline nearby. But he always gives enough downtime to the students so that they can recover after each such event. Students are always expected to take 6 years, which is roughly the department average.
## Funding & Support Funding is almost always available. The PI makes a good amount of effort to know the students at a personal level including their lives hopes and ambitions. He also tries hard to send students to major conferences by recommending them for travel grants, and ensuring that his own students can present the works done by them.
## Research Lab culture is quite good, with students from related subjects sharing the same lab space and interactions are friendly. The lab is truly a melting pot of different cultures with students from different parts of Asia and North America sharing the lab space and discussing various topics. The PI believes that students who are not interested or capable should be dropped early, so dropout in the middle or later stages of PhD is rare. Internship in industry is encouraged, and the PI himself has good industry contacts which he occasionally leverages.
## Lab Culture The PI is among the world's most knowledgeable expert in his field. His developed concepts find themselves in every textbook. The PI has an interesting strategy in assigning projects. The PI believes that each student should have two projects -- one chosen by the PI, and the other chosen by the student himself or picked up from an internship. The PI liberally contributes as much as he can to the student's chosen topic too. Authorship is always chosen appropriately, with a single student leading the project and becoming first author. Other students may contribute and may become middle authors depending on their own negotiation and contribution. The PI himself does not care at all about his own authorship position.
## Additional Information The PI is the department chair, which can make him seem inaccessible for a few weeks, as meeting him physically has become more difficult. However, he still responds to individual queries whenever he can, and contributes intellectually. Whatever he lacks in terms of ability to devote time, he tries to make it up by contributing intellectually to the research projects.
He has a unique advising style, where he pairs each incoming PhD student with a senior one. He closely monitors the performance of the junior student until they get familiar with the technology involved. Once trust and familiarity builds up, he becomes more hands-off and allows good amount of flexibility to the students. He is accessible only if the student knows how to approach him. He hates long emails and usually does not respond to them. However, he really checks short messages where the student's concern are explained briefly and tries his best to respond. Usually, these issues get response within a few hours. When papers are close to the deadline, he can spend hours of time to ensure that it is sent with the best possible version. He can also spend hours checking that his students are presenting the content well not only at conferences, but also at job talks. This supervision is very strict, but it is made always to improve the prospects of the student. Overall, a very large-hearted person who serves as an example to his students.
## Expectations for PhD Students
Expectations in the lab are relatively high. While only 3 papers are needed to publish, he really expects to see them go to good venues. Almost all the work involved requires building of actual testbeds, which can be time-consuming and frustrating for people who do not enjoy . He tends to respect students time, unless there is a submission deadline nearby. But he always gives enough downtime to the students so that they can recover after each such event. Students are always expected to take 6 years, which is roughly the department average.
## Funding & Support
Funding is almost always available. The PI makes a good amount of effort to know the students at a personal level including their lives hopes and ambitions. He also tries hard to send students to major conferences by recommending them for travel grants, and ensuring that his own students can present the works done by them.
## Research
Lab culture is quite good, with students from related subjects sharing the same lab space and interactions are friendly. The lab is truly a melting pot of different cultures with students from different parts of Asia and North America sharing the lab space and discussing various topics. The PI believes that students who are not interested or capable should be dropped early, so dropout in the middle or later stages of PhD is rare. Internship in industry is encouraged, and the PI himself has good industry contacts which he occasionally leverages.
## Lab Culture
The PI is among the world's most knowledgeable expert in his field. His developed concepts find themselves in every textbook. The PI has an interesting strategy in assigning projects. The PI believes that each student should have two projects -- one chosen by the PI, and the other chosen by the student himself or picked up from an internship. The PI liberally contributes as much as he can to the student's chosen topic too. Authorship is always chosen appropriately, with a single student leading the project and becoming first author. Other students may contribute and may become middle authors depending on their own negotiation and contribution. The PI himself does not care at all about his own authorship position.
## Additional Information
The PI is the department chair, which can make him seem inaccessible for a few weeks, as meeting him physically has become more difficult. However, he still responds to individual queries whenever he can, and contributes intellectually. Whatever he lacks in terms of ability to devote time, he tries to make it up by contributing intellectually to the research projects.
Yes, I recommend this PI.