Teaching & Tips

Teaching:

• DATA 201 Intro to Data Science Fall 2025

Guest Lecturer:

• UIUC CS 598 Knowledge-driven Natural Language Generation, Spring 2022

Useful Tips for Students

General Advice

• [Advice for Researchers and Students] by Michael Ernst
• [Advice for Research Students] by Jason Eisner
• [Awesome Tips] by Jia-Bin Huang
• [Resources Collections for PhDs in NLP / AI] by Zhijing Jin

Research

• [Fei-Fei Li’s Advice on Good Research and Good Papers] by Fei-Fei Li
• [On Impactful AI Research] by Omar Khattab
• [How to Do Research] by Bill Freeman
• [Research Taste Exercises] by Christopher Olah

Paper & Presentation

• [Planning Paper Writing] by Devi Parikh
• [Shortening Papers to Fit Page Limits] by Devi Parikh
• [How we Write Rebuttals] by Devi Parikh
• [How to Make Slides] by Tessa Davis

PhD Life

• [A Survival Guide to a PhD] by Andrej Karpathy
• [PhD Advice] by Kevin Gimpel