Miscellaneous
More about Me
- My name in Mandarin Chinese is 林博 (pronunciation: lʲin2 pʷoː2).
- I used to do competitive rope skipping when I was in high school. My personal best was 127 skips / 30 sec.
- I have kept a Houston Rocket #11 jersey (Yao Ming) and a Brooklyn Net #13 jersey (James Harden).
- I enjoy playing badminton in my spare time.
- I also enjoy cooking and making coffee for friends :)
Useful Links
Below is a growing collection of links that I found useful.
- Academic Career
- Kira Goldner (CS & OR markets)
- Nikhil Garg (OR & B-School)
- Renyu Zhang (OR & OM)
- Ian Zhu (OR & OM)
- Terence Tao (math, from primary school to postdoc)
- Industry Career
- How to succeed at a tech internship (engineering focused)
- How to intern (research focused)
- PhD Survival Guide
- Awesome tips by Jia-Bin Huang (CS)
- Managing your advisors by Nick Feamster
- Student guide by Jimmy Lin
- Cultivating your research taste by Nick Feamster
- Tips on writing papers with mathematical content by John Tsitsiklis
- How to write math by Dimitri Bertsekas
- The elements of style (general writing guide)
- How to speak by Patrick Winston
- Research philosophy
- On impactful AI research by Omar Khattab
- The art of doing science and engineering by Richard Hamming
- Interesting Applications of Linear Programming
- Methods
- Convex optimization by Sébastien Bubeck
- Concentration inequalities for statistical inference by Huiming Zhang and Song Xi Chen
- Prompt engineering by Lilian Weng
- Structural econometric modeling by Peter Reiss and Frank Wolak
- Risk measures by Hans Föllmer and Alexander Schied
- Conformal prediction by Ryan Tibshirani
- Datasets (let me know if interested in chatting about them)
- Random