Rosanne's CV of Failures



Inspired by the Nature article “A CV of failures”, and by examples from Jia-Bin Huang and others, this is my CV of failure.


Failed job applications

  • OpenAI, 2020
  • Facebook AI Research, 2020
  • Nvidia, 2020
  • Uber ATG, 2020


Failed school applications

  • Purdue University, Department of Statistics, 2009
  • University of Michigan, EECS Department, 2009
  • UC San Diego, 2009
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009
  • Yale University, 2009
  • University of Pennsylvania, 2009


Rejected papers

  • NeurIPS 2018 x2


Failed collaborations


Titles that I was never granted

  • “40 under 40” of anything
  • “30 under 30” of anything
  • “20 under 20” of anything