https://liyifei.org/post/PostsWowchemy (https://wowchemy.com)en-us© 2026 Yifei Li | 君子不器https://liyifei.org/media/icon_huce83f9d2cff91faab74beee6f515005c_132226_512x512_fill_lanczos_center_3.pnghttps://liyifei.org/post/https://liyifei.org/post/phd-resource/Sun, 25 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://liyifei.org/post/phd-resource/<!-- A growing resource list that I find helpful for research and PhD in general. --> <h3 id="applying-to-top-cs-phd-programs">Applying to Top CS PhD Programs</h3> <p>Collective do&rsquo;s and dont&rsquo;s from various CS Professors at CMU.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://da-data.blogspot.com/2015/03/reflecting-on-cs-graduate-admissions.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reflecting on CS Graduate Admissions</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2015/10/how-to-write-a-bad-statement-for-a-computer-science-phd-admissions-application.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Write a Bad Statement for a Computer Science Ph.D. Admissions Application</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2016/04/should-you-email-a-professor-during-admissions-season.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Should You Email a Professor During the Ph.D. Admissions Season?</a></li> <li><a href="https://jxyzabc.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-phd-abridged.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What My PhD Was Like</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="learning-physical-simulation">Learning Physical Simulation</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://matthias-research.github.io/pages/publications/realtimeCoursenotes.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Real Time Physics Class Notes</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~baraff/papers/sig98.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Large Steps in Cloth Simulation - David Baraff, Andrew Witkin</a></li> <li><a href="http://viterbi-web.usc.edu/~jbarbic/femdefo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(SIGGRAPH 2012 Course) FEM Simulation of 3D Deformable Solids: A practitioner&rsquo;s guide to theory, discretization and model reduction</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/fluidsimulation/fluids_notes.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(SIGGRAPH 2007 Course) Fluid Simulation for Computer Animation</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.elsevier.com/books/computational-fluid-dynamics/blazek/978-0-08-099995-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Computational Fluid Dynamics: Principles and Applications</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/content/book/9781259861901" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An Introduction to the Finite Element Method</a></li> <li><a href="https://finite-element.github.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finite Elements Analysis and Implementation</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="deriving-analytical-gradients">Deriving Analytical Gradients</h3> <p>You probably need this if you work on diffrentiable simulation without using an autodiff framework.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/matrixcookbook.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Matrix Cookbook</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="giving-a-presentation--talk">Giving a Presentation / Talk</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://graphics.stanford.edu/~kayvonf/misc/cleartalktips.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tips for Giving Clear Talks</a></li> <li><a href="https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/advice/giving-talk.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Give a Technical Presentation (How to Give a Scientific Talk)</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="writing">Writing</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ff7643543dbcf533ddfb8a8/t/5ffe4695ecabfb2a45e74391/1610499733496/amjfte13.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Being Scheherazade: The Importance of Storytelling in Academic Writing - T Pollock, J Bono</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="website-template">Website Template</h3> <p>My website is adopted from the <a href="https://github.com/wowchemy/starter-hugo-academic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hugo Academic</a> template.</p> <h3 id="rendering">Rendering</h3> <p>The figures for <a href="diffcloth/">DiffCloth</a> and <a href="anisotropicstokes/">AnisotropicStokes</a> are rendered using <a href="https://www.mitsuba-renderer.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mitsuba</a>.</p>