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