{"id":281,"date":"2017-10-01T21:20:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T04:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/?p=281"},"modified":"2023-01-17T10:45:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T17:45:16","slug":"note-for-prospective-students-and-posdoc-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/2017\/10\/01\/note-for-prospective-students-and-posdoc-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Note for prospective students, postdoc researchers, and letter-requesting students"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>For current\u00a0UBC students (Ph.D., Master, Undergraduate)<\/strong>: Thank you for your interest in working with me. There could be research opportunities for exceptional cases: students should have a working knowledge of Python programming and Linux environment. I recommend interested students to take these online courses: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacamp.com\/tracks\/data-scientist-with-python\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Data Science<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacamp.com\/tracks\/machine-learning-with-python\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Machine Learning<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacamp.com\/courses\/introduction-to-shell-for-data-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linux<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacamp.com\/courses\/intro-to-sql-for-data-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SQL<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacamp.com\/courses\/introduction-to-using-mongodb-for-data-science-with-python\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NoSQL<\/a>. Before you contact me, <strong>please read my research group&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/analyticsailab\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">publications<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/analyticsailab\/working-papers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">working papers<\/a><\/strong>, then describe the <strong>specific<\/strong> research topics you want to pursue. In addition, please send me your transcript, resume, and code samples (e.g., GitHub repository if available).<\/li>\n<li><strong>For non-UBC students (Ph.D. and Master&#8217;s program applicants): <\/strong>Thank you for your interest in working with me. Unfortunately, I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">don&#8217;t<\/span> have the capacity to work with non-UBC students. For possible collaboration, you first need to go through the formal admission process for UBC and Sauder School of Business before I can consider you as a potential collaborator. You <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">do not need<\/span><\/strong> to have a commitment from an advisor prior to admission. Please check the related information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sauder.ubc.ca\/Programs\/PhD_in_Business_Administration\/Specializations\/Management_Information_Systems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ph.D. program<\/a> and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sauder.ubc.ca\/Programs\/MSc_in_Business_Administration\/Program_Overview_and_Specializations\/Management_Information_Systems_Specialization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M.Sc. program<\/a>. Also, please note that admission decisions are collectively made by Sauder school, not by individual faculty members.<\/li>\n<li><strong>For recommendation letters<\/strong>: I write reference letters for outstanding students (A- above) who have taken my class. To apply for a reference letter, please send me your transcript, resume, and personal statement (for graduate schools). Cheers!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Regarding postdoc positions or visiting students:<\/strong> Thank you for your interest in working with me as a postdoc or a visiting student. Unfortunately, I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">don&#8217;t<\/span> have the capacity to host more researchers at the moment. You can find UBC faculty who are taking visiting scholars at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/virs\/hosts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/virs\/hosts<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Regarding the Visiting Associate Program at Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/ckr.iar.ubc.ca\/ckr-visiting-scholar-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/ckr.iar.ubc.ca\/ckr-visiting-scholar-program\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For current\u00a0UBC students (Ph.D., Master, Undergraduate): Thank you for your interest in working with me. There could be research opportunities for exceptional cases: students should have a working knowledge of Python programming and Linux environment. I recommend interested students to take these online courses: Data Science, Machine Learning, Linux, SQL, and NoSQL. Before you contact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[822902],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}