PhD candidate seeks insights into ETH AI Fellowship selection criteria by crowdsourcing profiles of invited symposium attendees

Reddit user asks ETH AI PhD Fellowship invitees to share their academic profiles to understand typical candidate characteristics

Inquiry focuses on university affiliation, research field, publication count (especially first-author papers), and conference venues

User specifically interested in whether successful candidates had recommendation letters from prominent researchers in their field

Post aims to provide prospective applicants with realistic benchmarks for fellowship competitiveness