{"id":1267,"date":"2020-12-13T17:46:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T17:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yingzhenli.net\/home\/en\/?page_id=1267"},"modified":"2020-12-13T17:46:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T17:46:42","slug":"cv-of-failures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yingzhenli.net\/home\/en\/?page_id=1267","title":{"rendered":"CV of Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/yingzhenli.net\/home\/pdf\/cv_yingzhenli.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">regular CV<\/a>, though listing some proud achievements, does not fully reflect my full efforts in getting to where I am now. In fact I didn't get most of my dream achievements, prizes and positions. I got rejections in most of my applications! Looking back through my still growing failure list, I realised that the road towards success requires making the right decisions at the right times. Still I also realised that, I was privileged to have the chance to make these life-changing decisions...<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nj7322-467a\" target=\"_blank\">this Nature post<\/a> about the idea of \"CV of Failures\". <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-red-color wp-block-paragraph\">My failure list (still growing):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Failed to enrol in the elite class at Zhixin High School (unsatisfactory high school entrance exam results).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unsatisfactory results in China National Mathematics Olympiad (\u5168\u56fd\u521d\u4e2d\u6570\u5b66\u8054\u8d5b &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/zh.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E5%85%A8%E5%9B%BD%E9%AB%98%E4%B8%AD%E6%95%B0%E5%AD%A6%E8%81%94%E8%B5%9B\">\u5168\u56fd\u9ad8\u4e2d\u6570\u5b66\u8054\u8d5b<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unsatisfactory Gaokao (\u9ad8\u8003, Chinese National College Entrance Examination) results despite ranked within the first 50s in Guangzhou's city-wide mock exam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never got top-5 GPA results during my undergrad years at SYSU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rejected by all of the SYSU exchange study programs in undergrad years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No offer for all CS PhD applications to Graduate Schools in North America (including Purdue, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, U Michigan, USC, U Toronto, UBC, U Waterloo, SFU...) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Took TOFEL English test 4 times and IELTS English test 2 times for graduate school applications, still failed to obtain the minimum grade required by Cambridge unconditional offer...<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rejected application of CSC scholarship (China Scholarship Council scholarship)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never worked out my first PhD project (Bayesian restrict Boltzmann machines, a doubly intractable problem), no publication in my first 2 years of PhD <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rejected papers at ICML\/NeurIPS\/ICLR\/AISTATS\/AAAI\/EMNLP since 2016 (still growing)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rejected research internship applications: Amazon, Deepmind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No offer for all Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) applications in Oxbridge (applied 7 colleges, 2 interviews, 0 offer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No offer for faculty position applications at Gatsby\/UCL\/Cambridge (some got interviews but no offer, COVID-19 hit the job market hard) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My regular CV, though listing some proud achievements, does not fully reflect my full efforts in getting to where I am now. In fact I didn't get most of my dream achievements, prizes and positions. I got rejections in most of my applications! 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