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My PhD Application Tracker

The programs, deadlines, and faculty shortlist I used to plan PhD applications in efficient ML and computer vision. Copy it and adapt it for your own list.

Application cycle 2025–26 Companion to My PhD Statement of Purpose
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Deadline Program Faculty shortlist Letters due
31 Oct ELLIS network - EuropeELLIS PhD Program
  • Björn Ommer
  • Cordelia Schmid
  • Bernt Schiele
  • Amir Zamir
  • Martin Jaggi
  • Shiwei Liu
  • Dima Damen
  • Yuki Asano
  • Stefan Roth
  • Daniel Cremers
 25 Nov
16 Nov Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems / Universities of Tübingen & StuttgartIMPRS for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS)
  • Shiwei Liu
  • Seong Joon Oh
  • Matthias Bethge
  • Hilde Kuehne
  • Wieland Brendel
 16 Nov
14 Nov Technical University of Munich (TUM) / LMU MunichMunich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)
  • Björn Ommer
  • Daniel Cremers
  • Stefanie Jegelka
 LOR not needed
1 Dec University of California, BerkeleyComputer Science / EECS PhD
  • Trevor Darrell
  • Kurt Keutzer
  • Alexei A. Efros
 1 Dec
1 Dec Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD
  • Phillip Isola
  • Yoon Kim
  • Pulkit Agrawal
  • Paul Pu Liang
  • Song Han
 1 Dec
1 Dec Mila - Quebec AI InstituteResearch MSc / PhD supervision matching
  • Aishwarya Agrawal
  • Aaron Courville
  • Sarath Chandar
  • Irina Rish
 1 Dec
2 Dec Stanford UniversityComputer Science PhD
  • Christopher Ré
  • Azalia Mirhoseini
  • Ludwig Schmidt
  • Percy Liang
  • Stefano Ermon
  • Fei-Fei Li
 2 Dec
10 Dec Carnegie Mellon University - Robotics InstituteRobotics PhD
  • Jun-Yan Zhu
  • Kris M. Kitani
  • Shubham Tulsiani
  • Katerina Fragkiadaki
  • Deepak Pathak
  • László A. Jeni
 10 Dec
10 Dec Carnegie Mellon University - Machine Learning DepartmentMachine Learning PhD
  • Hao Liu
  • Zico Kolter
  • Virginia Smith
  • Tim Dettmers
 10 Dec
11 Dec New York University (NYU)Computer Science PhD
  • Pratyusha Sharma
  • Mengye Ren
  • Eunsol Choi
  • He He
  • Greg Durrett
  • Yann LeCun
  • Andrew Gordon Wilson
  • Rob Fergus
 11 Nov - verify discrepancy
15 Dec Princeton UniversityComputer Science PhD
  • Zhuang Liu
  • Olga Russakovsky
  • Danqi Chen
  • Tri Dao
  • Ravi Netravali
 15 Dec
15 Dec Cornell University / Cornell TechComputer Science PhD
  • Christopher De Sa
  • John Thickstun
  • Andrew Owens
  • Noah Snavely
  • Volodymyr Kuleshov
  • Alexander Rush
 15 Dec
15 Dec University of Texas at AustinComputer Science PhD
  • Kristen Grauman
  • Philipp Krähenbühl
  • Chenfeng Xu
 15 Dec
15 Dec École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)Computer and Communication Sciences (EDIC) PhD
  • Amir Zamir
  • Martin Jaggi
  • Caglar Gulcehre
  • Alexandre Alahi
  • Pascal Fua
  • Samy Bengio
 15 Dec
15 Dec University of WashingtonComputer Science & Engineering PhD
  • Ali Farhadi
  • Ranjay Krishna
  • Luke Zettlemoyer
  • Hanna Hajishirzi
 15 Dec
15 Dec Harvard UniversityComputer Science PhD
  • Yilun Du
  • Sitan Chen
  • Qianqian Wang
  • Sham M. Kakade
 15 Dec

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