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