Hiring PhD students is even harder than hiring employees because younger folks have more potential to grow.
And unlike an industry researcher who can let interns come and go, a university professor sticks with the students.
Two prior PhD applicants to HKU whom I passed on have turned out with outstanding performance.
One of them is still collaborating with me, so I did not regret as much. Actually, if he had not gone to another school we would not have access to some crucial hardware environment for our project, and his adviser might not have warmed back to SIGGRAPH. So I probably still made the right call.
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I clearly have a lot to learn, and will have hundreds of cases to practice every year.
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