Chenxi Liu

He came into the dyna robotics office but unfortunately I was away that day.

His blog has good advice https://chenxi116.github.io/2020/key-lessons-for-a-successful-phd-career.html.

Key takeaways:

• If you’re going to write a paper, optimize for it to be extremely impactful and good
• Reading lots of papers is very important. How to assess if you’ve read enough papers? If you can write a survey paper / understand most of the papers that are being cited

“No matter how famous you get, at the end of the day, you are only going to be remembered for very few things. So optimize the quality of your best paper, maximize its impact, as this will be closely associated with your name.”

Also make sure your worst paper is still good.

“your best paper vs your worst paper is like attracting people over vs keeping them around”