"Student A is a Ph.D. candidate whose strength is academic research and whose career dream is a professorship in a university in the US or Canada. He published a good number of papers in competitive conferences and reputable jour- nals, and got his Ph.D. in 4 years. He then became a post-doctoral fel"
"Good research should 1. have clear benefit 2. be simple to state 3. have no obvious solution 4. have a criterion where progress and solutions are testable, and where it is possible to break the larger problem down into smaller steps, so that one can see intermediate progress after each step"
"Step 1: Find a novel and potenially high-impact problem to slove based on the high-level criteria on choosing a good problem. Step 2: Find a candidate soluion. You then formulate a hypothesis as a (problem,solution) pair. Each hypothesis states that the solution can indeed solve the problem. Step 3:"