Agreed. I would also note that Julia might be used in a wide range of graduate fields, from linguistics to economics to computational physics to math, so if you're only interested in working in Julia you needn't limit yourself to Comp Sci/Eng unless that's the field you wanted to go into anyways.
On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 9:17:53 AM UTC-8, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > > On Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 11:43:38 AM UTC-5, Rohit Thankachan > wrote: >> >> I am planning on applying to masters and/or PhD programs that start in >> Fall 2016. I am a JSoC 2015 student and have been doing work related to 3D >> visualizations from Julia - ThreeJS.jl >> <https://github.com/rohitvarkey/ThreeJS.jl> and Compose3D.jl >> <https://github.com/rohitvarkey/Compose3D.jl>. I am hoping to continue >> working on these projects along with newer projects in Julia as part of a >> master's or PhD program. Does anyone know of any programs that would allow >> me to do this? Pointers would be appreciated too. :) >> > > As a general rule, you should apply to PhD engineering programs with the > expectation that you can choose your general area of research (e.g. > visualization), but your specific projects will be chosen by your advisor > in the beginning. You can generally spend a certain fraction of your time > on personal projects, and as you become a more senior graduate student you > often have more input in steering your research direction, but your advisor > will typically hire you with projects already in mind for you to work on. > > (Also, as a general tip for admissions: by all means, express an interest > in specific areas of research, but in your application statement you should > appear flexible in what specific problems you want to work on. If you > appear too determined to work on a specific problem, no one will want to > admit you except in the unlikely event that your problem exactly coincides > with a project already in their research program/grants.) >
