awesome-phd-cv

Q: How do I install awesome-phd-cv?

Run npx skills add https://github.com/reason-machines/trending-skills --skill awesome-phd-cv in your project. The skills CLI detects the agents you use and copies the skill into the right folder. For Claude Code you can also place the skill folder at ~/.claude/skills/awesome-phd-cv/ (personal) or .claude/skills/awesome-phd-cv/ (project).

by reason-machinesEducation & Science

LaTeX CV/resume templates for PhD students and researchers, covering ATS-optimized industry resumes and full academic CVs.

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Install

Works with every agent the skills CLI supports.

npx skills add https://github.com/reason-machines/trending-skills --skill awesome-phd-cv

01
Install
Run the command in your project. The CLI asks which agents to install for.
02
Describe the task
Ask your agent for something this skill covers. It loads awesome-phd-cv automatically when relevant.
03
Review the result
The agent follows the SKILL.md steps, scripts and references bundled with the skill.

SKILL.md

The instructions your agent reads when the skill is triggered.

Awesome PhD CV

Skill by ara.so — Daily 2026 Skills collection.

A curated collection of LaTeX CV/resume templates for PhD students, postdocs, and researchers. Covers three distinct use cases: ATS-safe industry resumes (Jake's format), high-density two-column resumes (Deedy format), and full multi-page academic CVs (Awesome-CV format).

What This Project Provides

Template	Use Case	Engine	Columns	Pages
`research-cv/` (Awesome-CV)	Faculty, postdoc, academic CV	XeLaTeX	1	Multi
`jakes-format/`	Industry SWE, big tech, ATS-critical	pdfLaTeX	1	1
`deedy-format/`	Experienced tech professionals	XeLaTeX	2	1

Installation & Setup

Prerequisites

Install a full TeX distribution:

# macOS
brew install --cask mactex

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt-get install texlive-full

# Windows — download MiKTeX from https://miktex.org/

For XeLaTeX templates (Awesome-CV, Deedy), ensure font packages are available:

# Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install fonts-font-awesome texlive-xetex

Clone the Repo

git clone https://github.com/LimHyungTae/Awesome-PhD-CV.git
cd Awesome-PhD-CV

Template 1: Jake's Format (Industry / ATS-Safe)

File: jakes-format/resume.tex
Engine: pdfLaTeX — no custom fonts, no multi-column, passes ATS parsers at Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft.

Compile

cd jakes-format
pdflatex resume.tex

Key Commands in Jake's Format

% Section header
\section{Experience}

% Job/project entry
\resumeSubheading
  {Company or Institution Name}{City, Country}
  {Your Title}{Start Date -- End Date}
  \resumeItemListStart
    \resumeItem{Built X system achieving Y metric on Z dataset/platform.}
    \resumeItem{Deployed model to production serving N requests/day.}
  \resumeItemListEnd

% Education entry (same command)
\resumeSubheading
  {Massachusetts Institute of Technology}{Cambridge, MA}
  {Postdoctoral Associate, CSAIL}{Jan 2025 -- Present}

% Skills section
\resumeSubHeadingListStart
  \resumeSubItem{Languages}{Python, C++, CUDA, Bash}
  \resumeSubItem{Frameworks}{PyTorch, ROS2, Open3D, PCL}
\resumeSubHeadingListEnd

Full Minimal Example: Jake's Format

\documentclass[letterpaper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage[empty]{fullpage}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{marvosym}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyfoot{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}

\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-0.5in}
\addtolength{\evensidemargin}{-0.5in}
\addtolength{\textwidth}{1in}
\addtolength{\topmargin}{-.5in}
\addtolength{\textheight}{1.0in}

\urlstyle{same}
\raggedbottom
\raggedright
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{0in}

% Section formatting
\titleformat{\section}{
  \vspace{-4pt}\scshape\raggedright\large
}{}{0em}{}[\color{black}\titlerule \vspace{-5pt}]

% Custom commands
\newcommand{\resumeItem}[1]{\item\small{#1 \vspace{-2pt}}}
\newcommand{\resumeSubheading}[4]{
  \vspace{-2pt}\item
    \begin{tabular*}{0.97\textwidth}[t]{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}
      \textbf{#1} & #2 \\
      \textit{\small#3} & \textit{\small #4} \\
    \end{tabular*}\vspace{-7pt}
}
\newcommand{\resumeItemListStart}{\begin{itemize}}
\newcommand{\resumeItemListEnd}{\end{itemize}\vspace{-5pt}}
\newcommand{\resumeSubHeadingListStart}{\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=0.15in, label={}]}
\newcommand{\resumeSubHeadingListEnd}{\end{itemize}}

\begin{document}

%-----------HEADER-----------
\begin{center}
    \textbf{\Huge \scshape Hyungtae Lim} \\ \vspace{1pt}
    \small +1-617-000-0000 $|$
    \href{mailto:htlim@mit.edu}{htlim@mit.edu} $|$
    \href{https://linkedin.com/in/yourprofile}{linkedin.com/in/yourprofile} $|$
    \href{https://github.com/LimHyungTae}{github.com/LimHyungTae}
\end{center}

%-----------EDUCATION-----------
\section{Education}
\resumeSubHeadingListStart
  \resumeSubheading
    {Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)}{Daejeon, South Korea}
    {Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (Robotics)}{Mar. 2019 -- Feb. 2024}
  \resumeSubheading
    {Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)}{Cambridge, MA}
    {Postdoctoral Associate, CSAIL}{Jan. 2024 -- Dec. 2024}
\resumeSubHeadingListEnd

%-----------SELECTED PROJECTS-----------
\section{Selected Projects}
\resumeSubHeadingListStart
  \resumeSubheading
    {KISS-ICP — LiDAR Odometry System}
      {\href{https://github.com/PRBonn/KISS-ICP}{\underline{GitHub ★3.1k}}}
    {Core Contributor}{2022 -- 2023}
    \resumeItemListStart
      \resumeItem{Designed adaptive threshold module reducing localization drift by 30\% on KITTI benchmark.}
      \resumeItem{Maintained C++/Python codebase used in production AV pipelines at 3 companies.}
    \resumeItemListEnd
\resumeSubHeadingListEnd

%-----------SKILLS-----------
\section{Technical Skills}
\resumeSubHeadingListStart
  \item{
    \textbf{Languages}{: C++17, Python, CUDA, CMake} \\
    \textbf{Frameworks}{: PyTorch, ROS2, Open3D, PCL, Eigen} \\
    \textbf{Tools}{: Docker, Git, AWS, GCP}
  }
\resumeSubHeadingListEnd

\end{document}

Template 2: Awesome-CV Format (Academic / Faculty Applications)

Directory: research-cv/
Engine: XeLaTeX
Structure: Modular — each section lives in cv/ subdirectory.

Compile

cd awesome-cv-format
xelatex cv.tex

Directory Layout

awesome-cv-format/
├── cv.tex                  # Main file — includes section files
├── awesome-cv.cls          # Class file (do not edit unless customizing)
└── cv/
    ├── education.tex
    ├── experience.tex
    ├── publications.tex
    ├── honors.tex
    ├── projects.tex
    └── skills.tex

Main File Structure (`cv.tex`)

\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{awesome-cv}

% Personal info
\name{Hyungtae}{Lim}
\position{Ph.D. Candidate{\enskip\cdotp\enskip}Robotics Researcher}
\address{Daejeon, South Korea}
\email{shapelim@kaist.ac.kr}
\homepage{limhyungtae.github.io}
\github{LimHyungTae}
\googlescholar{your-scholar-id}{Google Scholar}

% Optional: accent color
\colorlet{awesome}{awesome-skyblue}

\begin{document}

\makecvheader

\cvsection{Education}
\input{cv/education.tex}

\cvsection{Research Experience}
\input{cv/experience.tex}

\cvsection{Publications}
\input{cv/publications.tex}

\cvsection{Honors \& Awards}
\input{cv/honors.tex}

\end{document}

Section File Examples

cv/education.tex

\begin{cventries}
  \cventry
    {Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering}
    {Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology}
    {Daejeon, South Korea}
    {Mar. 2019 -- Feb. 2024}
    {
      \begin{cvitems}
        \item {Dissertation: \textit{Robust LiDAR Odometry and Mapping for Outdoor Environments}}
        \item {Advisor: Prof. Hyun Myung, Urban Robotics Laboratory}
        \item {GPA: 4.1/4.3}
      \end{cvitems}
    }
\end{cventries}

cv/publications.tex

\begin{cvpubs}
  \cvpub
    {\textbf{H. Lim}, S. Jung, H. Myung}
    {ERASOR: Egocentric Ratio of Pseudo Occupancy-based Dynamic Object Removal for Static 3D Point Cloud Map Building}
    {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) + ICRA 2021}
    {2021}
    {Citations: 280+, \href{https://github.com/LimHyungTae/ERASOR}{GitHub ★500+}}
\end{cvpubs}

cv/honors.tex

\begin{cvhonors}
  \cvhonor
    {Best Paper Award}
    {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)}
    {Philadelphia, PA}
    {2022}
  \cvhonor
    {Korea Presidential Science Scholarship}
    {Korea Student Aid Foundation}
    {South Korea}
    {2019 -- 2024}
\end{cvhonors}

Template 3: Deedy Format (Two-Column, High Density)

File: deedy-format/resume.tex
Engine: XeLaTeX
Note: Requires deedy-resume.cls from deedy/Deedy-Resume.

Compile

cd deedy-format
xelatex resume.tex

Key Commands

% Left column (narrow — education, skills, links)
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.33\textwidth}

\section{Education}
\subsection{MIT}
\descript{Postdoc | CSAIL}
\location{Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 | Cambridge, MA}
\sectionsep

\subsection{KAIST}
\descript{PhD | Electrical Eng.}
\location{Mar 2019 – Feb 2024 | Daejeon, KR}
\sectionsep

\section{Skills}
\subsection{Programming}
C++ \textbullet{} Python \textbullet{} CUDA \\
ROS2 \textbullet{} PyTorch \textbullet{} Open3D
\sectionsep

\end{minipage}
\hfill
% Right column (wide — experience, projects)
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.66\textwidth}

\section{Experience}
\runsubsection{Google DeepMind}
\descript{| Senior Research Engineer}
\location{Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, CA}
\begin{tightemize}
  \item Built real-time 3D scene understanding pipeline for robotics team.
  \item Reduced inference latency by 40\% via CUDA kernel optimization.
\end{tightemize}
\sectionsep

\section{Selected Projects}
\runsubsection{ERASOR}
\descript{| Dynamic Object Removal for LiDAR Maps}
\location{GitHub ★500+ | RA-L 2021 | 280+ citations}
\begin{tightemize}
  \item Designed ego-ratio occupancy method; first open-source tool for this task.
  \item Adopted by 3 autonomous driving companies in production mapping pipelines.
\end{tightemize}
\sectionsep

\end{minipage}

Core Insight: Academic CV → Industry Resume Conversion

The Mindset Shift

Academic CV	Industry Resume
Publication-driven	Project-driven
Venue and novelty	Impact, scale, deployment
Full paper titles + co-authors	One-line signal: venue + citations
Long, multi-page	One page, ATS-parseable
Human reviewer (domain expert)	ATS first → recruiter → engineer

What to Keep, Cut, and Reframe

KEEP (reframed as impact):
  ✓ Open-source projects with GitHub stars → proves production-quality code
  ✓ Deployed systems / real-world validation
  ✓ Quantified results: "30% reduction in drift on KITTI"
  ✓ Scale: "serves N users / processes N points/sec"

CUT or COMPRESS:
  ✗ Full publication list → keep top 2-3 most relevant
  ✗ Teaching history → omit unless applying to EdTech
  ✗ Conference reviewer service
  ✗ Verbose paper abstracts as bullet points

REFRAME:
  Before: "Published paper on real-time LiDAR odometry at IROS 2023"
  After:  "Built real-time LiDAR odometry system (30ms/frame on embedded GPU);
           open-sourced with 800+ GitHub stars; adopted by 2 AV startups"

Tailoring Projects Per Application

% For an AV Perception team — lead with detection/segmentation work
\resumeSubheading{3D Object Detection System}{GitHub ★420}
  {Lead Developer}{2022 -- 2023}
  \resumeItemListStart
    \resumeItem{Implemented PointPillars variant achieving 72.1 mAP on nuScenes val set.}
  \resumeItemListEnd

% For a Mapping/Localization team — lead with SLAM work
\resumeSubheading{KISS-ICP Contribution}{GitHub ★3.1k}
  {Core Contributor}{2022 -- 2023}
  \resumeItemListStart
    \resumeItem{Designed adaptive threshold reducing drift 30\% on KITTI; merged upstream.}
  \resumeItemListEnd

Common Patterns

Adding GitHub Stars to Entries (Any Template)

% Jake's format — in the right-hand date position
\resumeSubheading
  {ERASOR — Dynamic Object Removal}{\href{https://github.com/LimHyungTae/ERASOR}{\underline{★ 500+ stars}}}
  {Lead Developer, Open Source}{2020 -- 2021}

% Awesome-CV format — in the description items
\begin{cvitems}
  \item {Open-sourced at \href{https://github.com/LimHyungTae/ERASOR}{GitHub ★500+};
         adopted in 3 production AV pipelines.}
\end{cvitems}

Hyperlinks in PDFs

% Jake's / pdfLaTeX — use \href with \underline for visibility
\href{https://github.com/LimHyungTae}{\underline{github.com/LimHyungTae}}

% Awesome-CV / XeLaTeX — \href renders colored by default via class
\href{https://limhyungtae.github.io}{limhyungtae.github.io}

Controlling Page Breaks in Awesome-CV

% Force new page between major sections
\newpage
\cvsection{Publications}
\input{cv/publications.tex}

Custom Accent Color in Awesome-CV

% In cv.tex preamble — choose a preset
\colorlet{awesome}{awesome-red}       % red
\colorlet{awesome}{awesome-skyblue}   % sky blue (default)
\colorlet{awesome}{awesome-emerald}   % emerald
\colorlet{awesome}{awesome-concrete}  % gray

% Or define your own
\definecolor{awesome}{HTML}{0E76A8}   % LinkedIn blue

Troubleshooting

XeLaTeX: Font Not Found

! fontspec error: "font-not-found"

Fix:

# Install FontAwesome system-wide
sudo apt-get install fonts-font-awesome   # Ubuntu
fc-cache -fv                              # Rebuild font cache

Or inside the .cls file, comment out \newfontfamily lines for missing fonts and substitute system fonts.

pdfLaTeX: Undefined Control Sequence `\resumeSubheading`

! Undefined control sequence \resumeSubheading

Fix: Ensure all custom \newcommand definitions appear in the preamble before \begin{document}. Jake's template is self-contained — do not split across files without copying the command definitions.

ATS Rejects Resume (No Text Extracted)

If an ATS returns your resume blank:

Switch to jakes-format/ (pdfLaTeX, no custom fonts).
Remove \includegraphics (profile photos).
Avoid tabular-heavy layouts; use plain itemize.
Test extraction: pdftotext resume.pdf - should return readable text.

# Install poppler-utils then test
pdftotext jakes-format/resume.pdf -

Overleaf Compilation

Jake's format: set compiler to pdfLaTeX in Overleaf settings.
Awesome-CV and Deedy: set compiler to XeLaTeX.
Upload the .cls file alongside .tex if Overleaf can't find it.

Quick Reference

# Jake's (pdfLaTeX)
cd jakes-format && pdflatex resume.tex

# Awesome-CV (XeLaTeX)
cd awesome-cv-format && xelatex cv.tex

# Deedy (XeLaTeX)
cd deedy-format && xelatex resume.tex

# Check ATS text extraction
pdftotext <output>.pdf -

# Clean auxiliary files
rm -f *.aux *.log *.out *.toc *.fls *.fdb_latexmk

FAQ

What does the awesome-phd-cv skill do?

LaTeX CV/resume templates for PhD students and researchers, covering ATS-optimized industry resumes and full academic CVs.

How do I install awesome-phd-cv?

Run npx skills add https://github.com/reason-machines/trending-skills --skill awesome-phd-cv in your project. The skills CLI detects the agents you use and copies the skill into the right folder. For Claude Code you can also place the skill folder at ~/.claude/skills/awesome-phd-cv/ (personal) or .claude/skills/awesome-phd-cv/ (project).

Which AI agents can use awesome-phd-cv?

Any agent that supports the open Agent Skills format (a folder with a SKILL.md file), including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Cline, OpenCode and more.

Is awesome-phd-cv safe to install?

No partner security audit is available yet. Skills can run commands and scripts, so read the SKILL.md and any bundled files before installing.

Who maintains awesome-phd-cv?

It is published by reason-machines in reason-machines/trending-skills. It has 976 recorded installs.

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awesome-phd-cv

Install

Install

Describe the task

Review the result

SKILL.md

Awesome PhD CV

What This Project Provides

Installation & Setup

Prerequisites

Clone the Repo

Template 1: Jake's Format (Industry / ATS-Safe)

Compile

Key Commands in Jake's Format

Full Minimal Example: Jake's Format

Template 2: Awesome-CV Format (Academic / Faculty Applications)

Compile

Directory Layout

Main File Structure (cv.tex)

Section File Examples

Template 3: Deedy Format (Two-Column, High Density)

Compile

Key Commands

Core Insight: Academic CV → Industry Resume Conversion

The Mindset Shift

What to Keep, Cut, and Reframe

Tailoring Projects Per Application

Common Patterns

Adding GitHub Stars to Entries (Any Template)

Hyperlinks in PDFs

Controlling Page Breaks in Awesome-CV

Custom Accent Color in Awesome-CV

Troubleshooting

XeLaTeX: Font Not Found

pdfLaTeX: Undefined Control Sequence \resumeSubheading

ATS Rejects Resume (No Text Extracted)

Overleaf Compilation

Quick Reference

FAQ

More from reason-machines/trending-skills

Popular education & science skills

Main File Structure (`cv.tex`)

pdfLaTeX: Undefined Control Sequence `\resumeSubheading`