Yaw Osei Adjei
Undergraduate Researcher
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

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On this page, I describe all my academic failures (at least the big ones I remember). Some failures are random, and others are justified. Some are not actually failures, but they often seem so at the moment, but they all suck.

The purpose of this is to showcase that behind any shiny success --- whether it's a paper, a scholarship, or a job, many failures hide behind it. We don't typically discuss them publicly, but it's important to anticipate, acknowledge, and learn how to deal with them.

By making this page public, I hope to help normalize failure and help others (including myself), understand that failure is part of the process and more common than it appears.

For my main webpage, you can visit here.

Bad News

  • Rejected for paper submission at AIES.
    June 2026
  • Rejected for the Aspire Leaders conference grant.
    April 2026
  • Rejected for travel and attendance funding for PLNW@PLDI 2026.
    April 2026
  • Rejected for travel and attendance funding for BCI 2026.
    April 2026
  • Rejected for travel and attendance funding for SVCC 2026.
    February 2026
  • Not accepted to the BASE Fellowship.
    February 2026
  • Not accepted to the Google research program (application).
    January 2026

Publications

No rejections yet.
Visit publications page for a complete list of my publications.