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I applaud your enthusiasm! However, as a policy, I do not work with high school students. Training high school students is a very difficult skill that I deeply admire (my mother is a high school teacher!), and I do not have it.
All open research positions are announced here. If you think you could be a good fit for one of them, make sure to contact me following the instructions in each announcement!
If there are no open positions, and you still would like to work with me, I am expecting you to present a somewhat concrete proposal for what project you wish to work on, as well as any experience relevant to geometry processing and 3D graphics that you may have. If your primary interest is in Machine Learning, Large Language Models, Computer Vision or Robotics, I will likely direct you to other faculty in our department who are, unlike me, experts in these areas.
All open research positions are announced here. If there is an available PhD position, feel free to email me with any questions, and apply through the Columbia Engineering PhD application website.
Please note that my first name is spelled “Silvia” (the second letter is an “i”, not a “y”) and my last name is spelled “Sellán” (with an acute accent over the “a”). I do not mean to seem rude, but I may delete your email without reading it if you do not take the time to spell my name correctly.
This is my email address: silviasellan@cs.columbia.edu