pandahotaru战心理恐惧的申请日记

2年前就决定要申请出国，拖拖拉拉地在硕士期间几乎就是把上课和研究做好了，文书、套磁、选校完全没有准备。浑浑噩噩地过了九月，十月终于决定要摆脱逃避现实的状态，认真投入申请的工作里。

背景先简单列一下，之后再求定位贴大概还会再问问……定位贴http://www.1point3acres.com/bbs/thread-40970-1-1.html

定位：保50，冲20-30；stanford是dream school，人生完整一下，听了dan boneh的视频课，我已经拜倒了。

现在所在的学校的密码学方向在全国的非军工类学校的计算机系里是top的，但是国内做的密码方向和国外做的截然不同，学术套套看吧。

前两天听了几个大学过来做博士宣讲。比起一定、必须要出国读博，我现在改变了想法——必须去那些我读过论文之后，我想继续做的那些方向。宁可少申请一些学校，务必让自己在国外“流放”是有意义的。不过，这样一来，之前泛泛查找的只有对方向有描述的那些选校，要推翻重来了。有些强委员会的学校大概会保留。

明天的目标是写RL的草稿。在地里找了好多资料攒着，明天看。

本周的目标是每天至少一套，套着套着，争取套出经验来。

LZ很有想法！加油！密码学出国的人好像很少啊

终于终于写完了第一个推荐人的RL draft。早晨起来把地里所有材料都过了一遍，全部指向一个准则：be honest, be specific, be eye-catching. 给自己列了个brag sheet，回顾了下之前的2年；和老师们的交集好少，以后要致力于增加存在感！
. Χ
也不知道有没有直接夸学术上有创造力的，先写着吧。

今天的目标套磁还没完成，看文章中…… fighting, fighting!

LQQ_XHH 发表于 2012-10-5 01:27
LZ很有想法！加油！密码学出国的人好像很少啊

谢谢~ 不过密码学出国真的很少……

昨天完成了另一篇Rl的草稿。

今天在看论文，稍微觉得有些有趣了。今晚之前发一篇陶瓷email！

拖拖拉拉，刚刚终于发出了人生第一封陶瓷信。心中惶恐。

=========我是准备材料的楼========
Rutgers:
source: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/graduate/ms_program.html#mscadmission
list:
General = [verbal, quantitative, analytical writing]
3 letters of reference
transcripts of all academic work at college level, both undergraduate and graduate
Prepare a personal statement
Obtain and fill out an application (http://gradstudy.rutgers.edu), and pay a $65 application fee
For PS
A clear statement, about one page in length, outlining the reasons why the applicant wishes to pursue graduate study in computer science. (If appropriate, please specify one or more areas of particular interest, to help us assign advisors. See section 5 for a list of areas.)

Deadline: January 1st

喵~刚才收到教授回的一封邮件~好开心 虽然不是套辞邮件……但是这个教授好nice啊！
UCLA的crypto也太难了……看标题完全不知道在说什么……尤其是偏complexity的那位教授

==========我是重新选校的楼==========前50Crypto学校大集合：
Stanford, UIUC, Gatech, Brown(also strong in securiy!), UCI (SCN, less energetic),
PSU, UCDavis, BU, Wisc, Maryland,
UVa, Colorado, UCSD, UT-Austin, UCLA,
Columbia, NYU, JHU(also strong in security!), Columbia, MIT,
Cornell, Rochester, Havard(salil Vadhan)


排序：
偏complexity: MIT>UCSD=UCLA=Havard>UIUC> BU > UCI
IBE, ABE, Functional encryption: UT-Austin > Stanford > JHU
Leakage Resilence: Columbia, ?
Secure Computation: Maryland = UCLA > UVa >UCI
Encryption primivites: UCSD>Gatech>Rutgers>UCDavis>Colorado [<-the most classic]
Differential privacy: PSU
Zero knowledge: UCLA > Cornell > Brown >Rochester.
奇怪了，怎么没有人做protocol的formal model和primitive的secure实现呢？


Brown = mixture of leakage, complexity, multiparty protocol
PSU = coding theory, quantum, privacy
BU = information theory/complexity
Wisc = security, mixture of randomness, primitives

1.5倍选校名单（之后按照个人背景删除我不符合要求的）：
crypto:
UCSD (dream), Gatech
Wisc,
UVa, JHU (...)
UIUC, Rochester(还没开始招人), BU
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security: Rutgers (New Jersey), UCI, UCSB (hack), dartmouth (medical device) (?) RPI(biometrics modelling and medical informatics & security Bülent Yener)

Candidates:

medical device security: umich > JHU > dartmouth > indiana > rice

(PSU seems strong in security also...)
PSU: 1 associate prof (publish 31 last two years, some in prestigious venues, with fewer than a few different people) with no fist authored papers last two years - on security issue detection in networks/networked resources
1 prof (with a lot of Chinese students; mcn lab; availability; tolerant; privacy; )
1 prof (patrickmcdaniel) (publish 25 last two years, almost all in prestigious venues, with a lot of different people) with 2 first authored papers last two years - on security policy and privacy
1 associate prof (Adam Smith) (publish 19 last two years, in prestigous venues and journals, with a lot of different people) with 1 first authored papers last two years

Harvard: programming languages and security

SUNY-SB: NSAC Lab - cloud computing (although they claim as applied crypto)

UMN: 1 associate prof (publish 18 last two years, half in prestigious venues, with a lot of different people) with 1 first authored papers last two years - on trust

UVa: 1 assistant prof (publish 4 last two years, half in prestigious venues , with ~8 different people) with no first authored papers last two years - secure computation on circuit

UCI: 1 associate prof (publish 10, half in prestigious venues, with ~10 different people) with 4 first authored papers last two years

OSU: 1 associate prof (publish more than a lot, most in venues I do not know, with many Chinese people) no first authored papers last two years - on some security issue detection and modeling

Rutgers [security group has 5 people]: 1 prof  (publish 9 in last two years, most in venues I do not know, with more than a few different people) first authored? -on private evaluation and private classifier and accountability

Duke: 1 associate prof (publish 10 in last two years, most in prestigious venues, with more than a few different people)  with no first-authored papers last two years - on reliable & private distributed system
1 associate prof (publish more than 10 in last two years, most in venues I do not know, with many different people)  with no first-authored papers last two years. - on security(trust?privacy?) of mobile and cloud------------------------------

Brown: 1 associate prof (publish 7 in last two years, most in prestigious venues, with her students)  with no first-authored papers last two years.
1 prof (publish 25  in last two years, some in prestigious venues, with a few different people) - with focus on complexity

Stanford: 1 prof (publish a lot, in prestigious venues, with many different people, many of which are big shots) with 4 first-authored papers last two years.
UIUC: 1 associate prof (publish more than a few, some in prestigious venues, with a few different people, some of which are big shots) with no first-authored papers last two years.

Wisc: 1 prof (publish more than a few, in prestigious venues, with more than a few different people, many of which are big shots) with 2 first-authored papers last two years.

Maryland: 1 prof (publish more than a lot, in prestigious venues and journals, with many different people, many of which I do not know) with an emphasis on secure computation in 2012. First-authored?
. Waral dи,
JHU: 1 assistant prof (publish a few, in prestigious venues and journals, with a few different people, which are big shots) with 2 first-authored papers last two years.
1 associate prof (Giuseppe Ateniese) (publish 12, some in prestigious venues, with a lot of different people, some of which of big shots) with 6 first-authored papers.

UCSB: 1 prof (publish a lot, some in prestigious venues, with lots of different people, which I do not know) with no first-authored papers

UCDavis: 1 prof (publish a few, in prestigious venues, with a few different people, some of which are big shots) with most papers first-authored

BU: 1 associate prof (publish few, in prestigious venues and journals with more than a few people, some of which are big shots). First-authored?1 AP (Sharon Goldberg)

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Indiana: 1 prof (publish a lot, in prestigious venues with a few different people, most of which are his *Chinese* students) with no paper first-authored last two years.
SUNY-SB: 1 AP (publish a few, some in prestigious venues with a few different people, most of which I do not know) with 1 paper first-authored last two years.

UConn: 1 prof (publish a few, some in prestigious venues with a few different people, which I do not know) with 2 first-authored papers last two years.

Columbia: 1 associate prof (publish a lot, some in prestigious venues, with lots of different people, many of which are big shots) with exciting papers

NYU[No security group]: 1 prof (publish much more than a lot, in prestigious venue, with lots of different people, some<?> of which are big shots)<-reject students' sending personal email except the student improving his result!

. 1point3acres.com Colorado: 1 associate prof (publish a few, in prestigious venues and journals, with some different people, some of which are big shots) - No.

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Brown: 1 associate prof (publish a lot, in prestigious venues, with some different people, many of which are her students)

UCDavis: 1 prof (publish a lot, in prestigious venues, with nearly no different people, some of which are big shots) with exciting papers

Gatech: 1 associate prof (publish a lot, in prestigious venues, with some different people, many of which are big shots)
UIUC: 1 associate prof (publish a lot, in prestigious venues, with some different people, some of which are big shots)

Definitely Super Good: UCSD, UT-Austin, UCLA, Stanford, UMaryland

Crossed over:
Rutgers: Crypto不强，已发陶瓷信给一今年刚加入的AP（有可能不招人(with some different people, some of which are big shots)），观望中(距离上次套辞已有1天)Rice, Northwestern, Utah, Washington in St. Louis: no crypto
UMass: 强在security
OSU: memory leak, security policy, bug,
OSU, UMass, Duke, UCSB, RPI, princeton, Havard, CIT, CMU, Washington: No explict crypto
UNC: 1 prof with applied crypto with no publication in high quality cryto venues (that is not so good)
MIT: too far away
UCB, UCI, JHU, : security not crypto
Chicago: old professor
USC, UMich, Purdue, Yale: engineering school
Florida: not update
Virginia Tech, TAMU: full of Chinese
UCSB: no crypto
dartmouth: (wireless security project David Kotz with a crypt post-doc)
.. TODO:

Cornell (1 associate prof): exciting?
UPenn: 1 prof who didn't update his papers but his blog (is the content in the blog interesting?), originally affiliated with at&t
, Boston, NCSU, TAMU

密码方向超级入口 http://www.cs.ut.ee/~lipmaa/crypto/
密码学家超级入口 http://pages.swcp.com/~mccurley/cryptographers/cryptographers.html


AP list: wisc, bu, rutgers(another AP: vinod ganapathy on software security), rochester (Muthu Venkitasubramaniam), gwu (hoeteck wee), fsu(breno),gatech(Chris Peikert(又没有招人信息))

刚刚又重新写了一个人主页，用来挂在自己实验室的网站上。

下一簇套磁目标：
columbia
virgniaut-austin
wisc
nyu
<====怎么好像全是AP的样子

明天的其它目标：
看crypto12的视频<-比usenix12视频难懂100倍啊

今天看的columbia的教授文章是survey，发表在一个挺水的会上，里面符号和描述不少错误。
survey不能用来套，倒是看了之后积累了不少背景知识。

明天的目标：
1继续看crypto12
2列一下目前哪几家学校在做tweakable block cipher
3继续看columbia的教授的另一篇paper