Organizers: Jimeng Sun, Cao (Danica) Xiao

Background: 

It has become increasingly competitive and challenging for students to get admitted into top CS PhD programs in the US. Most of the admitted PhD students at those top programs are already seasoned researchers with first author publications at top venues. They are truly superb and lucky because they acquired the necessary research training and often demonstrated their ability via publications in time. However, there are many more that are equally talented but do not have the chance to learn how to do research and how to publish a paper. 

We are here to help those outstanding college students (undergraduate or graduate) in computer science or related areas who want to become machine learning researchers focusing biomedicine, healthcare and legal applications.

Objective: 

To provide research experience for outstanding international students through Sunstella machine learning research summer camp. 

Target applicants: 

Talented college students with a strong technical background in computer science and related fields who are interested in gaining research experience in preparation for their PhD applications.

Format: Virtual intensive research training

You will be matched with a mentor (an experienced PhD student), and have a weekly research meeting with your mentor. You will develop a research project for the summer that you can complete and potentially lead to a publication. You will have weekly meetings with other participants in the program. At the end of the program, you will complete a full paper that can potentially be submitted for publication and present your project to others in the program.

Why should you join our camp

• Welcome both domestic (US) and international students to participate in our ML research training program and strongly encourage minority students to take advantage of this opportunity.

We provide research training for college students who are interested in PhD study in machine learning research in healthcare, biomedicine and legal applications.

• Opportunity of working with leading researchers 

Our team includes leading researchers from academia and industry and experienced PhD students. All mentors can share their valuable experiences with you and provide their feedback in your application process. 

• Unique research experience and personalized support

Our team will match the selected students to a research project and a mentor.

Intensive but organized research training for all participants to gain essential experience in creating a research publication.

• Highly selective and completely free of cost

We only invite outstanding ML researchers to serve as mentors, while we also require participants to have a strong technical background and have the drive and dedication to achieve.

Important dates: 

• Application deadline: Feb 28, 2023

• Notification date: Mar 31, 2023

• Mentor matching: Mar-Apr 2023

• Virtual Research summer camp: May 15 to Aug 15, 2023

How to apply?

If you are interested, please submit your information via this form, and feel free to email us at sunstella.foundation@gmail.com if you have any questions.