For Prospective Graduate Students
I receive quite a few e-mails each year from students wishing
to learn about opportunities to work in the DSP lab under my research
supervision.
It is difficult to respond individually to all the letters. However,
you may want to know the following before you apply for admission to
our
graduate program and are interested in working with me:
- I am always looking for good students to join my group.
- Every qualified applicant will be considered for financial
support
if the applicant has been admitted to the graduate program and has
indicated
an interest in working under my supervision. However, there are much
more
qualified applicants than positions available.
- With rare exceptions, I will provide financial support only
to
Ph.D. students. TA positions as well as RA positions with other faculty
members
may be available for MS students, but I am not involved with those
decisions.
- The criteria I employ for selecting my students include, but
are
not limited to
- Academic performance including rank in your class. In
particular,
excellent grades in signal processing and mathematics courses.
- Reputation of your school.
- GRE scores, especially the quantitative and analytical
scores.
- Prior exposure to doing research in signal processing, and
the
results of such work. If you have presented your results in conferences
or
technical journals, it is a definite plus.
- Positive recommendations of your professors or supervisors
at
work.
- Ability to program in MATLAB or another commonly used
language
such as c++.
- Good written and oral communication skills.