APPLICANT'S NAME: REFEREE'S NAME: IN WHAT CAPACITY DO YOU KNOW THE APPLICANT? WRITTEN REFERENCE Please provide a written letter of reference. We would appreciate it if you could: 1. From your experience of other students you have supervised, assess the applicant's intellectual capability. 2. Comment on the applicant's likely commitment to further postgraduate study, especially in the areas of computational neuroscience and machine learning. 3. Comment on the applicant's personality, in particular his or her interaction with others. A description of the Gatsby Unit PhD programme is available at http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/teaching/phd/. RANKING Please compare the applicant's abilities in the following areas to the typical *incoming PhD student* in your department. If you use a different cohort for comparison, please let us know. Please use the following categories: Bottom 50% | Top 50% | Top 10% | Top 5% Intellectual ability: Written communication: Verbal communication: Ability to organise a workload: Originality: Overall assessment of the candidate: