Degree

PhD

Program

Computer Science, Computational Biology

Term

2026 Fall

Research Interests

AI For Science, Computational Genomics

Application Results

School Program Result Date
Johns Hopkins University (JHU) CS Admission -
University of Maryland-College Park (UMD) CS Admission -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) EECS Interview -
Stanford University (Stanford) Biomedical Data Science Rejection -
University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) Computational Biology Rejection -
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Computational Biology Rejection -
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) CS Rejection -
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) CS Rejection -
University of Washington (UW) CS Rejection -
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) CS Rejection -

Decision

Johns Hopkins University - CS

Background

BS in NTU BME
MS in CMU Computational Biology
MLE intern @ Taiwan AI Labs - 6 months
Computational Biology intern @ Genentech - 6 months
大專生計畫＋得獎
TA * N (1 in CMU, N-1 in NTU, algo/AI courses)

English Scores

(waived by MS)

Publications

2 x 1st author
1 x 2nd author
1 x 3rd author
1 x 1st author in prep

Recommendations

2 from NTU, 1 from CMU

Other Comments

Connection is all you need. 最好從以前指導教授熟的領域的人下手，他如果聽過你老闆名字，老闆也給強推，你少發別人一兩篇都沒關係。
Funding 很緊張，有些你想去的老師其實根本不收人，或是要rotation的可能會下修國際生（因為第一年funding是department給的）。Cold Mail 絕對不虧（我如果提前做可以少申請兩三間QQ），人家不回也不代表不收你，可能只是懶得先看。
做交叉學科的人，小program其實沒有比較簡單，因為老師不一定會從那裡錄取人，所以不用因為校名太高就投小program。