ML PhD Student Asks What Industry Internships Really Want

A first-year ML PhD at a top-5 US program with a NeurIPS main-track first-author paper was still rejected by Nvidia, Waymo internships and a Citadel travel grant; working outside hot areas like LLMs and agents, they ask what industry internships actually look for.

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