Congratulations to MCL Alumni for Joining Facebook, Google, Apple, and Bloomberg
We would like to say congratulations to five of MCL Alumni–Chen Chen, Shangwen Li, Hao Xu, Jian Li, and Xiaqing Pan–for passing their PhD defenses and starting their career lives in such great companies of the U.S.. This year, we will have Chen and Shangwen joining Facebook, Hao joining Google, Jian joining Apple, and Xiaqing joining Bloomberg. We are so glad to have them to share their experience and advises for us.
Chen Chen:
I joined MCL 6 years ago as a master student. In the first seminar talk, Prof. Kuo’s sharing totally changed my view of being a researcher. It is the moment that I made the hard decision to become a PhD student. As expected, joining MCL creates unexpected benefits to my life. The precious platform provides many opportunities for me to learn and to grow. It allows me to meet many excellent students and scholars. Working with them is like visualizing myself in a mirror, which teaches me to know myself before growing. MCL also creates huge challenges to push me to the extreme. Every exam, project due and paper submission are companied with thousands of hours of rigorous and humble team work. “Aim high and act low” is the most impressive lesson I learned from the hard process.
It is the precious experience in MCL that offers the Facebook position at the end of my PhD. However, different from what I learned in MCL, I expect to gain more working experience and entrepreneurship in Facebook. I would also like to see more students from our lab can join Facebook to strengthen the MCL alumina team in the future.
Shangwen Li:
During my past internship at Facebook, I worked on a [...]