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Tips for approaching a prospective grad adviser:
  1. DON'T send a boilerplate email, à la "Dear Professor, I'm interested in your research area". That's a total turnoff...
  2. DO show you really are interested in the professor's research area, by writing a personal email that demonstrates you have spent at least 5 minutes (hopefully more) exploring their area. And for crying out loud, at least add their name: "Dear Professor Dumbledore" rather than "Dear Professor"!
  3. DO (briefly) describe your industrial and academic experience.
  4. DON'T be overly lengthy. Two paragraphs should suffice: one  for point (2), one for point (3).
  5. DO be polite. (Duh...)
  6. DO or DON'T attach a short CV. Up to you. 
  7. DON'T attach anything else. If there's an interest you'll be asked for additional material.
 Material for prospective grad students:
  • ​What is an Evolutionary Algorithm?
  • Intro to Evolutionary Algorithms (YouTube, in Hebrew)
  • John Koza Genetic Programming (YouTube)
  • Genetic and evolutionary algorithms and programming: General introduction and application to game playing
  • Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Recent papers of mine under SPOTLIGHT on my homepage
  • Take a peek at my github repos
  • StatQuest is a great YouTube channel on machine learning and statistics
  • Free books:
    • Evolved to Win
    • A Field Guide to Genetic Programming
    • Hands On Machine Learning with Scikit Learn and TensorFlow
    • The Elements of Statistical Learning
    • Essentials of Metaheuristics
    • Python Data Science Handbook
    • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python
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