{"id":26047,"date":"2021-12-16T16:43:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T21:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/?p=26047"},"modified":"2021-12-16T16:43:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T21:43:53","slug":"yihua-xu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/2021\/12\/16\/yihua-xu\/","title":{"rendered":"Yihua Xu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/csmet\/files\/2021\/12\/Yihua-Xu-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-26048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/files\/2021\/12\/Yihua-Xu-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/files\/2021\/12\/Yihua-Xu-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><strong>Alum\u2019s Collaboration with BU MET Faculty Inspired Him to Pursue PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yihua Xu<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Computer Science PhD Student<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Illinois Institute of Technology<\/strong><br \/>\nMaster of Science in Computer Science (MET\u201920)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us a little about what you\u2019re doing now.<\/strong><br \/>\nNow I am studying for a PhD in computer science at the Illinois Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What led you to pursue your master\u2019s degree at BU MET?<\/strong><br \/>\nThere were several factors that led me to choose MET. First of all, the research field of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/profile\/19931\/\">Professor Shengzhi Zhang<\/a> was exactly what I was interested in. That was the key point that made me transfer to BU MET from another school. For two academic years, I worked with Professor Zhang on several research projects. Eventually, a paper called &#8220;EnclavePDP: A General Framework to Verify Data Integrity in Cloud Using Intel SGX&#8221; was published in RAID 2020. Those experiences reinforced my idea of pursuing a PhD degree.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, BU MET offered classes at night, which gave me more freedom during the day. I hate to be interrupted when I am focused on research. BU MET made it easy to pursue my own schedule in the daytime, and take courses at night. That allowed me to maintain a balance between school and home life. Third, Boston is an attractive city with a deep sense of history and a strong academic environment. There are lots of tourist attractions and world-famous universities such as Harvard, MIT and BU. Along the Freedom Trail, I learned about American history, and I enjoyed tourist attractions such as the State House.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/profile\/yuting-zhang\/\">Professor Yuting Zhang<\/a> also gave me lots of help. She patiently answered my questions, no matter how easy or complex they were. For example, I took her course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/academic-programs\/courses\/cs683\/\">Mobile Application Development (MET CS 683)<\/a>, but I had never learned or used Java before, so I had to repeatedly meet with Professor Zhang to resolve my questions. At the end of the course, I finished a chat app. When I applied for a PhD program, I asked her to write recommendation letters for me for several universities. She was always happy to do that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have anything else to add?<\/strong><br \/>\nI want to give students at BU MET or people preparing to apply to MET a suggestion, which is don\u2019t be shy about talking to professors, because they are willing to help us improve ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alum\u2019s Collaboration with BU MET Faculty Inspired Him to Pursue PhD Yihua Xu Computer Science PhD Student Illinois Institute of Technology Master of Science in Computer Science (MET\u201920) Tell us a little about what you\u2019re doing now. Now I am studying for a PhD in computer science at the Illinois Institute of Technology. What led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2828,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10837],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26049,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047\/revisions\/26049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}