Asians in general face a major problem of lacking in formal English and technical writing skills. Paired with the scarcity of quality mentor grad students (get

Asians in general face a major problem of lacking in formal English and technical writing skills. Paired with the scarcity of quality mentor grad students (getting into a grad programs is way easier than getting in into UG programs, the best students head to other countries ) and massive societal pressures, it is incredibly difficult to write papers at a tier 1 level. This leads to students submitting promising but half baked work to predatory journals/conferences just to get some closure. Source : submitted promising robotics work to IEEE-IROS. Got praised for the key innovation, got blasted for shoddy writing and underexperimentation. With more time it could have been better, but by then it was time to graduate and head to greener pastures.