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Isn't he roughly doing what PIs do? Except they usually take last author.
Isn't he roughly doing what PIs do? Except they usually take last author.
Name order depends on the conventions of the field, but yeah.
In CS and ECE, yes, PI is the last author.
But as a PhD grad looking for a faculty position, you will be evaluated by the number of first-author papers you have published.