Connecting Students
with Opportunities
An evidence-based tool that helps students discover research and internships that match their background.
How JoinALab works
From profile to confirmed application tracking — the steps of the release product.
Tell us your background
Major, year, interests, skills — or import them from your résumé or GitHub in one click.
Get ranked, honest matches
Thousands of live opportunities scored against your profile, with international-student eligibility called out.
Draft a grounded cold email
A personalized draft citing the professor’s actual research, with tone controls, refine chat, and mistakes to avoid.
Track every outreach and application
A board of everyone you’ve contacted and everything you’ve applied to — statuses, notes, and reminders so no reply falls through.
Built with
Privacy
Your PDF résumé is parsed in your browser with pdf.js and never uploaded — but the text it extracts is saved with your profile (and in its version history) so matching can use it. No ads, no data selling; product analytics are anonymous. See the privacy policy for what is stored and how to have it deleted.
Behind JoinALab
Guoyi (Eric) Xu
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
An independent student project — built and maintained in the open. Questions, bugs, or schools you want added? Reach out anytime.
Contributors
- EEmilyMulti-school data & infrastructure
Independent student project. Not affiliated with any listed university. Opportunity data is aggregated from public sources.