Shadow CV

Here is my Shadow CV, inspired by Melanie Stefan’s article and others.

After grad school

• September 2024
  • One rejection from EMNLP 2024
• July 2024
  • One DARPA proposal rejected
• June 2024
  • One rejection from RLC 2024
• May 2024
  • One rejection from ACL 2024
• January 2024
  • Two rejections from AISTATS 2024
• September 2023
  • Two rejections (one second-author paper and one last-author paper) from NeurIPS 2023 main track.
  • One rejection from AAAI 2024 (second-author paper).
• July 2023
  • Two intramural seed grant applications rejected.
• May 2023
  • Two papers rejected from ACL 2023.
• April 2023
  • One second-author paper rejected from IJCAI 2023.
  • One last-author paper rejected from ICML 2023.
• January 2023
  • Not selected for first round of campus visits for tenure-track position at the School of Information at UArizona (I ended up being invited for the second round and getting the job).
• December 2021
  • One second-author paper rejected from AAMAS 2022.
• May 2021
  • One first-author paper rejected from the IEEE Conference on Games (this ended up being published as a book chapter later).
• March 2021
  • Submitted 1-page whitepaper to DSO Days, did not get selected to meet with a program officer.

Grad school

• Failed written comprehensive exams twice, had to petition to take them a third time.

Undergrad

• Rejected from 19 out of 21 PhD programs I applied to.
• Rejected from every single summer REU program I applied to.

High school

• Rejected from 13 out of the 14 colleges I applied to.
• Did not make the cutoff for the IITs in the IIT-JEE exam.