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I am looking for graduate students and undergraduates with strong interests and motivation to work on designing and understanding networked systems. Students with mathematical background (EE, math) and/or systems building abilities (CS) are highly encouraged. Drop me an email if you are interested in working with me at Nanjing University.

Advice: Mentality, mentality, mentality!

Many students have the question: what should I do to prepare for the graduate study? I believe mentality (initiative, attitude, etc.) is much more important than any technical skills, and the same is true for all fields beyond sciences and engineering. With the right mentality, everything follows.

The following article contains an excellent summary of advice for students (and even profs) to prepare their mentality for grad school. I just wish everyone could read it so that he/she doesn't have to learn the hard way.

Jason Hong. PhDs from the Faculty's Perspective, Blog@CACM, 2012.

Interesting links

Some blogs and websites related to Computer Science research that I browse from time to time:

• How to do great research, by Nick Feamster and Alexander Gray, CS, Georgia Tech.

• Matt Welsh, formerly a Harvard CS professor, now a Google software engineer

• Mike Mitzenmacher, CS, Harvard

• Joe Hellerstein, CS, UC Berkeley

• Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon.com

• James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services Team

• Sandeep Tata, IBM Research

• Joseph Weinman, Senior VP, Cloud Services and Strategy, Telx

• The h-Index for Computer Science

• DatacenterKnowledge.com

• Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University

Inspiring readings

• The networking philosopher’s problem, SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 41(3), pp.5–9, July 2011

• Architecting for innovation, SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 41(3), pp.24-36, July 2011.

• Flow rate fairness: Dismantling a religion, SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 37(2), pp.63-74, March 2007.

• Pricing in computer networks: Reshaping the research agenda, SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 26(2), pp.19-43, 1996.

• Fundamental design issues for the future Internet, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 13(7), pp.1176-1188, September 1995.