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PhD Students

Admission to MIT's PhD program is through the EECS department. When submitting your application, mention my name in your statement of purpose to make sure that I will read your application.

Can I email you? In general, I receive too many external student emails to respond to each one individually. I am more likely to respond to emails if they do one or more of the following:

• Demonstrate understanding of one of my research projects and:
  • Propose specific ideas to extend the work to address a limitation.
  • Connect ideas in my papers to other, unexplored directions.
• Demonstrate ability to build real, open-source projects in my areas of interest (programming languages, compilers, tools for hardware design):
  • A substantial extension to a class project building a compiler or a complex hardware accelerator.
  • Contributions to large open-source projects like LLVM or CIRCT.
• Describe a primary-author publication at a top venue in programming languages, computer architecture, systems, or reconfigurable computing.
  • This is generally a high bar to achieve, and, in general, I do not expect people to have published a paper before joining the lab.

Emails like this can be a good jumping off point to have a technical conversation and might have a positive impact on your application since it provides extra signals that we have a compatible research tastes.

Can you assess my application? No. The strength of an application depends on the assessment of your letter writers which you do not have access to. Furthermore, the decision to accept any particular student is made with the input of several other faculty. Please apply to the MIT graduate admissions process and list me as a reader for your application.

Can you help me with my application? No. However, MIT's GAAP provides assistance to students applying to MIT.

MIT Students

UROPs

Attempt a problem on the challenge problems page and drop me an email.

M.Eng

If you would like to do a thesis project with me, please read two of my papers and email me propose a possible project you'd be interested in pursuing. This does not need to be the final project you work on but should be a jumping off point for ideas.

PhD

I love hearing what folks at MIT are working on! Drop me an email, and we'll set up some time to chat.

Postdocs

I am generally not soliciting applications for postdocs but if you think that we are an exceptionally good match, please:

• Drop me an email with:
  • Two-page research statement on your PhD work and future directions.
  • What you would like to get out of a postdoc position at FLAME.
  • What your future career plans are.

Visiting Students

If you already have substantial research experience and are interested in visiting my group, please send me an email with:

• Funding available to you during your visit. If you do not have any funding available, a visiting position would be challenging to set up.
• A one-page research statement detailing your previous research projects.
• 3-4 research papers you have read that you are excited about.
• (Optional) A research project you would want to conduct as a visiting student.
• Time period when you would like to visit.