Academia

Jeff Huang posted a bunch of computer science professor hiring statistics on his site. Unlike the statistics I gathered previously (see this post and this one), he had his students use crowdsourcing so he has a much larger database consisting of over 2000 professors at 51 top US universities. Consistent …

What’s it like being a professor at a teaching institution? Professors at teaching institutions do a lot less research than professors at research universities. In the United States, these professors work at community colleges, small liberal arts colleges, and four year colleges that typically lack Ph.D. programs. To pursue this …

I previously estimated faculty job candidate statistics by estimating what the CVs of professors looked like when they got their jobs. I thought it would be interesting to do a similar analysis with the faculty candidates interviewed by UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering department (CSE) in 2013. They …

UC San Diego’s Cognitive Science Department is one of the top departments in the United States. In 2013, they interviewed four faculty candidates from the Salk Institute, NYU, UC San Francisco, and Stanford. I briefly went through their CVs to get an idea of what traits the Cognitive Science department …