I prefer to be contacted by email at "dt at cs•ucla•edu". Regrettably, I normally receive a greater volume of email than I can answer promptly, or even at all; my apologies.
If you are interested in joining my research group, thank you. Please refer to the following FAQ:
May I join your group as a visiting scholar?
Only if you have your own financial support. However, I tend to advise many graduate students, so I must be highly selective in accommodating visitors.
I have been admitted to UCLA or am already a UCLA student. May I join your research group?
Please arrange to meet with me so we can get to know each other better. However, before I can agree to take on a new PhD student, which is a serious, long-term academic commitment, I normally expect them to take one of my graduate courses and impress me with the quality of their work.
May I become your graduate student?
I ignore mass emails whose salutations do not address me by name. If you are academically exceptional and believe that we have substantial common research interests, then tell me about yourself in a personalized email message. Please don't send me a big message with lots of attachments; instead, place your CV and other materials on your website and send me a brief, plain-text introductory message with URL pointers to relevant materials. If I am sufficiently impressed by your interests, background, and accomplishments, I may reply to your message and encourage you to apply for admission into our CS graduate program. Please understand, however, that I receive too many such messages and cannot reply to most of them.
To be considered for admission, you must submit a formal application. If you would like to apply, please refer to https://www.cs.ucla.edu/graduate-admissions/.
Would it be possible for me to obtain financial support?
My available funding is normally committed in its entirety to my current PhD students, though this situation can occasionally change. Our Graduate Admissions Committee can offer financial support fellowships only to a few of the highest-ranked PhD applicants offered admission. Most of our PhD students support themselves through departmental Teaching Assistantships (TA) beyond their initial 9-month Research Assistantship (RA) support funded by their advisors. Many of our graduate students also obtain paid summer internships at companies.
What is the status of my application for admission into the CS graduate program?
Please inquire with the Computer Science Graduate Student Affairs Office at gradadm@cs.ucla.edu; Tel: 310-825-0060 or 310-825-6830; Fax: 310-206-8133.
Can I do an internship in your group at UCLA? I am an undergraduate or graduate student at another university.
Probably not and certainly not unless you have your own financial support. If you cannot indicate in your message that you have full financial support and/or send a bulk email not addressed specifically to me, I will not reply as I get too many such queries.
Demetri Terzopoulos