Wednesday, July 5, 2017

How to apply to CI&BCI Center, FEIT, UTS

Here is a summary for application to CI&BCI Center, FEIT, UTS. You are welcome here and hope this can leverage your application process.

First is the English proficiency requirement for non-native English speakers, it's the most concerned for all applicants. In my opinion, IELTS is recommended. The requirement is 6.0 on average however 6.0 for writing component. I also personally recommend one way for learning English, it's called shadowing, meaning well-prepared repeating after native speakers(according to Ms.吳思葦). This way is used to train interpreters, you can try.

The second is for scholarship, nevertheless, Sydney is a high cost place, and one must need some support for surviving. Usually, you just mention you need scholarship in your application, and the faculty, FEIT will initiate the application to waiving the fee. So talk with your supervisor or second supervisor about it directly after you have all the material for application prepared. In my opinion, the best point is before you get the conditional offer, if you are sure of it. If you launch it after the conditional offer, and obtain confirmation from adviser, (I would think it's applicable for all FEIT candidates), just write back to tell UTS international you are opt for scholarship and meantime carbon copy it to FEIT: feit.research@uts.edu.au.
-        Now I understand it depends on the kind of the scholarship you will get. If your scholarship is form project grant, please directly talk to Professor Lin and he will help
Third, about the application material, I think it's of no exception, the general materials required for applying for any school is applied here, namely, CV, research proposal, transcript, English proficiency certificate, statement of completion, etc. By the way, Statement of Completion in some countries may refer to the graduation certificate and degree certificate. If the school can issue the documentations both in original language and English, there's no extra effort to obtain certified version from some notary organizations. By the way, don't forget to post the paper version to GRS office after you submit them online.

It's suggested the application is submitted before the deadline proposed by the Graduate Research School, however extra evidence material could be gradually added. But it's better to have all of them once in a while unless there's some special reason. It's not difficult to find the online application website. Check the links below:
BTW, if you are interested in CI&BCI center, please choose the course number C02029

I would think the international office of UTS will process the application via following stages (just my guess, without their confirmation) MI -> Ack -> CO -> FO –> CoE. Since emails tend to flood them, please be patient. I would personally think everyone there couldn't be nicer, so don't worry if you are sure you could contribute to UTS once enrolled, they won't let you pass away.



Tuesday, June 27, 2017

How to access tensorboard via ssh tunnel

Since CIBCI tends to utilize the computation resource provided by the faculty, however the IT admins reluctant to add tensorboard to the white-list of firewall, so a solution needs to be fixed out to overcome it.

One solution is to transfer the event file between peer and server, a more clever way is to do an ssh tunnel. Since on the campus network, there's no NAT, so a local port-forwarding is OK, however for whose server sitting behind the NAT, a remote forwarding is required.

For locate forwarding, just modify the shortcut as follows:
"C:\Program Files\PuTTY\putty.exe" -ssh username@ip-address -L 8080:ip-address:8080

Enjoy the wonderful tool