I have been absurdly fortunate in my access to mentors and resources that prepared me for grad school and helped me apply for academic jobs. I know that not everyone has easy access to these resources, and so I started collecting advice and useful links. I also asked the UC Berkeley EECS Department to keep a similar list. Please contact me (sherbert at ucsd.edu) if you have corrections or additions!

Pre-Faculty Preparation

Online Resources

• Rising Stars in EECS 2014 videos (Lectures, panels on academia and industry)

• Rising Stars in EECS 2017 videos (Lectures, panels on academia and industry)

• The 7 year postdoc (Great editorial; there are also talks on the subject from the author online)

Faculty Preparation Workshops

General Programs:

• Caltech Engineering and Applied Science Trailblazers Symposium

• UC Berkeley Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty (1-month course, might only be for Berkeley students)

General Engineering Programs:

• Rising Stars Asia (women only)

• NextProf

• Caltech Young Investigator Lecture Series (women and under-represented minorities only)

• WPI STEM Faculty Launch Workshop

• Future Digileaders (women only, research in areas including, but not limited to, security and privacy, human-technology interaction, systems and data science, artificial intelligence, robotics, networking, or communication and control)

Electrical Engineering and/or Computer Science Programs:

• iRedefine

• Rising Stars in EECS (women only)

Mechanical Engineering Programs:

• Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering (“interested in candidates who have demonstrated commitment to excellence by providing leadership in research, service, or teaching toward building an equitable and diverse scholarly environment”)

Field-specific Programs:

• Computational & Data Science

  • Rising Stars in Computational & Data Science (“All graduate students and postdocs, including those who belong to groups underrepresented in data science, are encouraged to apply, including but not limited to people of all racial, ethnic, geographic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, sexual orientations, genders, and persons with disabilities”)

• Robotics

  • Robot Guru (part of Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics)

  • RSS Pioneers (part of Robotics: Science and Systems conference)

• Control Systems

  • Meet the Faculty Candidate Poster Session (part of Conference on Decision and Control)