Undergrad with NeurIPS Paper Weighs PhD University Choice

An Australian tier-2 undergraduate with a first-author NeurIPS 2026 paper is deciding between staying at his current university for a funded PhD or waiting a year to apply to top 15-25 US or UK programs, aiming for a researcher role at DeepMind or Meta.

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