Graduate Students

Currently I am not recruiting additional PhD students.

(To be occasionally updated)

[PhD] Graduate studies at UWaterloo.

Information about the admissions process can be found here. All (full-time) graduate students receive funding. See funding information, tuition and fees, and rough estimates of living costs. If you wish to apply, please get in touch close to the application deadline.
[PhD] Should I pursue PhD studies?

PhD is all about research. Are you very persistent and motivated? Are you passionate about solving problems? PhDs can be very rewarding, but are also hard work. You won’t be happy or successful unless you are truly passionate about your research topic.

Don’t do a PhD just to get a job: your post-graduation prospects might or might not be better, depending on how successful your PhD has been, the job market, and other criteria. In short, there is no guarantee.
Don’t do a PhD in order to study a subject (“I’d like to become better at X”): research is first-and-foremost about progressing the state-of-the-art, not just learning it.
[resources] Tips for graduate students.

A collection of research, writing and graduate-life advice by Jia-Bin Huang. UWaterloo’s Toshiya Hachisuka maintains a superb graduate study survival guide. As with every advice, none applies to everyone, and some advice works better for some and not for others.