Recommendation Letter Draft

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am glad to recommend Ms. Jingyang Li to your graduate program. She is a hardworking and intelligent student in my class.

Ms. Li did good job on my lectures of digital signal processing and microelectronic circuit design. Through hard working, she became one of the top students in my class. Ms. Li is focusing on machine to machine networking and doing wireless communication research work with my colleague in the Joint Institute. However, she never limits her knowledge to this certain realm but tries to study different topics. As a self-motivated person, she tries to acquaint herself with a wide range of engineering subjects, such as smart semiconductor devices, matrix theory and graph theory. Also, she succeeded in doing several engineering programs in our institute and for other organizations. Except for her research on network and communication, she participated in signal filter design, webpage and website construction as well as Grading Book system development. I appreciate her industry.

Despite her sedulity, Ms. Li is also a very sociable student with leadership. She is the president of Yunnan Volunteer Charity Program, which aims to improve the education and living quality of children in the western region of China. Ms. Li gathered capable students and non-governmental organizations to realize their responsibilities. Also, she once worked for Microsoft Research Asia as an intern in her sophomore year. She was one of the youngest interns in the company. Her superior performance there set up good reputation for our Joint Institute. Besides, she helped to hold a collaborative discussion between Microsoft and our deans, Professor Shensheng Zhang and Robert Parker.

I am confident that Ms. Li will be a good graduate student at your department. Her diligence and strong social ability are the two biggest merits for her to be successful in the overseas study.

Sincerely yours,

Prof. Dianguang Ma

UM-SJTU Joint Institute

第二篇：申请国外博士后推荐信

College ofxx,

29 Wangjiang Road,

xx, xx,xxx, P.R. China

Tel: 86-xx-xx

E-mail:

February 1, 2012

Dear Dr. xx,

Dr.xx requested a letter of reference from me to support his application for the postdoctoral position in your laboratory. As his former advisor, I think highly of Dr.xx, therefore I am very delighted to comply with his request.

I knew him in the summer of xx, when he joined my research group on function of Chinese electro-acupuncture in hypocholesterolemia as the only undergraduate research assistant. In this group, he was responsible for the aspects of assisting to construct the animal model and gathering data. Though that work was ordinary, he performed every task carefully, and presented his ideas to help improve the experimental results. Many times I saw that he still worked at about 11p.m. when I left. I wondered how energetic he could be and appreciated his trait of diligence and dependability very much.

One year later, he became a graduate student and joined my laboratory while I had the Genetic Engineering course of him. His curiosity and insatiability provided him with enthusiasm to broaden his knowledge in molecular biology. At the end of the semester, he got a good score ranking within top 5% of the class. After finishing his courses in 2009, he went on the research project to isolate hypercholesterolemia-associated genes. While managing the project, he showed me with his excellent experiment ability and independent thinking aptitude. What impressed me most was his persistence and optimism. In the presence of pressure, he was rather enjoying the process of the research instead of being uncomfortable with fear and avoidance.

One thing I must emphasize is that Dr.xx has made lots of progress from a junior student to an experienced researcher by dint of hard work. As a result, his effort is rewarded by a paper published in xxx which has been the most excellent one completed by graduate student in our college so far. That has won him recognition from not just me but my colleagues as well.

However, Dr. xx is not satisfied with the current achievement and has set up his career goal. As he told me his willingness to proceed with his postdoctoral career in your vigorous laboratory, I could understand his heart of seeking more academic advancement there and applauded his strong desire and decision to take his dedications and skills to the next level. With your help, I believe this ambitious young man will be an excellent scientific researcher.

I sincerely expect the information I provided above could be helpful for you to assess Dr. xx’s application and consider him favorably. Further information is available if you need.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. xxx

Professor of xx University