Open AccessWhat I Wish I Had Known Early in Graduate School but Didn't — and How to Prepare For a Good Job Afterward
Author(s) -
Koenig Sven
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ai magazine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 2371-9621
pISSN - 0738-4602
DOI - 10.1609/aimag.v41i1.5291
Subject(s) - advice (programming) , wish , graduate students , mathematics education , psychology , medical education , pedagogy , computer science , sociology , medicine , anthropology , programming language
Begin with the end in mind! 1 PhD students in artificial intelligence can start to prepare for their career after their PhD degree immediately when joining graduate school, and probably in many more ways than they think. To help them with that, I asked current PhD students and recent PhD computer‐science graduates from the University of Southern California and my own PhD students to recount the important lessons they learned (perhaps too late) and added the advice of Nobel Prize and Turing Award winners and many other researchers (including my own reflections), to create this article.