The University of California at Irvine is one of the fastest growing UC campuses. It has some of the most renowned names in Computer Science on its faculty list. The machine learning group at the university has some of the most renowned names on its list. People like Pierre Baldi have been instrumental in UC Irvine’s rise as a top notch CS department. But now, another big wig in the world of computer science joins UC Irvine as faculty. Mike Carey, a National Academy of Engineering member, is acknowledged as one of the 50 most influential computer scientists in the world by a UCLA-maintained Web site that tracks research citations. He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery …

Amandeep Khurana, from Thapar Institute of Technology, is part of the fresh crop of grad students to join the Department of Computer Science at University of California, Santa Cruz. In this short but sweet interview - Amandeep gives us a glimpse on how he is adjusting to life away from home, and trying to adjust in with the new settings. Many times when you are unfamiliar with the new environment, the grad student community which is living there already - often pitches in with a great deal of support. Here is Amandeep talking about his initial few days as a grad student in the US:
1. Which program did you get into here in the US and when did you …

Mrunal Gawade is a masters student in Jack Baskin School of Engineering, in Computer Science department, at University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. He is from Pune, India. He received his undergraduate BE Computer Engineering degree from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT), Pune, India. Here is a post from Mrunal about the entire process of applying to US universities for MS - covering almost the entire spectrum from thinking about applying for MS/Phd to visa interview. Here is Mrunal (mrunalg.com) himself:
Applying for higher studies could be made easier if you have the plans on your mind at least in some form during your undergraduate days. Like say you know that you would be applying for MS / PHD in future( …