I am a maths undergraduate in my final year, on course to obtain a first class honours. I completed a year long work placement as a research scientist last year, specifically in medical deep learning. During this placement I was authored on 2-3 publications, where my research work was based on using deep learning models to generate synthetic medical data. I am now in the process of applying to masters and PHD programmes (DTP). However, I am not sure of which I should pursue in. I have strong chances of being accepted in the DTP programme since my workplace supervisor did his PHD there and has said he can help me get in. However, I don’t know if I should do a masters first to gain further knowledge in Machine learning, or pursue this 4 year PHD programme. The first year, however, does include some level of teaching, where they do a machine learning and programming course for PHD students to learn from, and you do some research rotations and then in years 2-4 you actually do your PHD. However, I am still unsure if I want to pursue 4 years, but the only thing persuading me is that I am still very young. I wouldn’t want to do both a masters and a PHD straight after, due to financial reasons since a masters is very expensive, and that would be further 5 years in total. My aim is to be either a research scientist or an MLE. Please could you all give me advice on whether I should pursue this DTP programme or not, in the case I am offered a place.
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r/cscareerquestions I am a maths undergraduate in my final year, on course to obtain a first class honours. I completed a year long work placement as a research scientist last year, specifically in medical deep learning. During this placement I was authored on 2-3 publications, where my research work was based on using deep learning models to generate synthetic medical data. I am now in the process of applying to masters and PHD programmes (DTP). However, I am not sure of which I should pursue in. I have strong chances of being accepted in the DTP programme since my workplace supervisor did his PHD there and has said he can help me get in. However, I don’t know if I should do a masters first to gain further knowledge in Machine learning, or pursue this 4 year PHD programme. The first year, however, does include some level of teaching, where they do a machine learning and programming course for PHD students to learn from, and you do some research rotations and then in years 2-4 you actually do your PHD. However, I am still unsure if I want to pursue 4 years, but the only thing persuading me is that I am still very young. I wouldn’t want to do both a masters and a PHD straight after, due to financial reasons since a masters is very expensive, and that would be further 5 years in total. My aim is to be either a research scientist or an MLE. Please could you all give me advice on whether I should pursue this DTP programme or not, in the case I am offered a place. submitted by /u/Sessaro290 [link] [comments]
I am a maths undergraduate in my final year, on course to obtain a first class honours. I completed a year long work placement as a research scientist last year, specifically in medical deep learning. During this placement I was authored on 2-3 publications, where my research work was based on using deep learning models to generate synthetic medical data. I am now in the process of applying to masters and PHD programmes (DTP). However, I am not sure of which I should pursue in. I have strong chances of being accepted in the DTP programme since my workplace supervisor did his PHD there and has said he can help me get in. However, I don’t know if I should do a masters first to gain further knowledge in Machine learning, or pursue this 4 year PHD programme. The first year, however, does include some level of teaching, where they do a machine learning and programming course for PHD students to learn from, and you do some research rotations and then in years 2-4 you actually do your PHD. However, I am still unsure if I want to pursue 4 years, but the only thing persuading me is that I am still very young. I wouldn’t want to do both a masters and a PHD straight after, due to financial reasons since a masters is very expensive, and that would be further 5 years in total. My aim is to be either a research scientist or an MLE. Please could you all give me advice on whether I should pursue this DTP programme or not, in the case I am offered a place.
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