About Piled Higher and Deeper
| The strip: | |
| "Piled Higher and Deeper" (PhD) is the comic strip about life (or the lack thereof) in academia. | |
| The author: | |
 Jorge Cham got his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, and was a full-time Instructor and researcher at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 2003-2005.A list of his research publications on robots and brain-machine interfaces can be found here. Click here to visit his homepage. | |
| Featured: | |
| "Piled Higher and Deeper" the comic strip has appeared in The Stanford Daily, MIT, Carnegie Mellon University and Caltech newspapers among over 50 others. The strip has appeared or been featured in the journal Nature, Science Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, IEEE Potentials magazine, Math Horizons magazine, Stanford Magazine and Canada's The Peer Review magazine among others, and has been linked to by USA Today's, The NY Times and The Washington Post's websites. | |
| The PHD Lectures: | |
| Since 2005, Jorge Cham has given invited lectures at nearly 300 universities and research centers worldwide. For a list, click here | |
| The books: | |
| Five collections of the strips have been published: "Piled Higher and Deeper: A Graduate Student Comic Strip Collection" was first published in June 2002, and collects the first five years of the strip; "Life is tough and then you graduate: The second collection of Piled Higher and Deeper comic strips" was published in April 2005, and collects the sixth, seventh and eight years; "Scooped! The Third Piled Higher and Deeper Comic Strip Collection" was published in April 2007. "Academic Stimulus Package was published in 2009. The latest book,"Adventures in Thesisland" was published in April 2012. The books are available on Amazon.com, on this website, and in bookstores throughout the U.S. Read more | |
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