First/Second-year Ph.D. students:

If you are looking for a thesis advisor, feel free to email me.

PhD Applicants:

• I am looking for highly self-motivated PhD students with funding support. If you are interested in working with me, please send an email xinya.du@utdallas.edu (with title: [Prospective PhD Student - Spring 2023 or Fall 2023]) including:
  • Your CV/Resume
  • Your transcript (both undergrad and higher)
  • Your representative work (e.g., publication, thesis, research project and repo)
  • A description of your research interests, and future career plan (Optional).
  We accept applications with flexible deadlines, the program starting date includes both Spring 2023 and Fall 2023. Please refer to here for general application information from the CS deparment (no strict requirement on GRE scores). Please mention my name in your statement.

Master or Undergrad Students (in or outside UTD):

• Other students passionate about research are also welcome to contact me, especially you can consistently commit time to research. Having good engineering skills is extra bonus. Please drop me an email (with title: [Prospective Intern/Master/Internship Student]) including:
  • CV (including your experiences) and transcript (unofficial, both undergrad and higher)
  • Time you plan to commit each week/month
  • Your plan after graduation (e.g., industry positions or applying for PhD program)

For Graduate Students

• Advice for Prospective Research Students from David Evans
• A word about department rankings from Charles Sutton
• Advices Collection
• Research Taste Exercises by Christopher Olah
• arXiv pdflatex compile

For Faculty

• Patterson's Rules
• Advice for researchers and students

Interesting Courses

• Generative AI for Constructive Communication Evaluation and New Research Methods
• Percy Liang's introduction to LLMs