Advising — Arvind Narayanan

Advice for students

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16 Oct 2022

The Liam Neeson principle
14 Oct 2022

Brillance is vastly overrated. Learn basic productivity techniques instead.
02 Jun 2022

Rewarding clever papers over societal value perpetuates privilege
22 Jun 2021

The importance of research taste
21 Jun 2021

Getting scooped feels like being punched in the gut. It doesn't have to.
27 Jun 2021

How to keep up with research (answer: don't!)
17 Feb 2021

How to keep up with research (answer: don't!)
17 Feb 2021

The role of luck in academia
11 Jan 2021

What expertise means and doesn't mean
25 Nov 2020

Heuristics for assessing which ideas are promising
21 Jul 2021

The cleverness tax in academia
27 Jul 2021

A CS degree isn't about learning to code
16 Feb 2020

The name familiarity bias in academia
16 Nov 2019

Put it on arXiv already
1 Nov 2019

Breaking out of hyper-specialization
1 Aug 2019

The flip side of passion and perseverence
1 Nov 2019

Is creating and maintaining research software pointless?
12 Apr 2019

What we look for in PhD applicants
3 Dec 2018

Why PhD experiences are so variable and what you can do about it
4 Sep 2018

Thoughts on tenure and productivity
1 Jul 2018

How to constructively review a research paper
15 May 2018

Grad school applications: my stroke of luck and what I learned from it
9 Jan 2018

That continual feeling of cluelessness when doing research
5 Jan 2018

How to prepare a technical talk
26 Nov 2013

How to pick your first research project 01 Nov 2013

The job talk is a performance 09 Feb 2013

Embracing failure: How research projects are like startups
02 Jan 2013

Five Surprises from My Computer Science Academic Job Search 01 Oct 2012