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Questions tagged [career-path]

Queries related to progression of academics in various capacities from a student to a professor and the various stages involved in the process.

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How to come back to academic machine learning career after absence due to health issues

Back in 2018 I started a master's degree in CS focusing on ML with the goal of eventually obtaining a PhD. This did not work out for two reasons: 1) most of the ML faculty left for another university. ...
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6 votes
3 answers
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Salary of Maître de conférences (France)

I am inquiring about academic positions in France and their salaries. In particular, I have received an offer for a "Maître de conférences" position. According to my current information, I ...
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3 answers
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New faculty position – expectation to change research direction

I am mainly looking for advice, perspectives and thoughts from other colleagues. For many years I have undertaken self-directed research as a Senior Researcher in the field of mental health. It has ...
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2 answers
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Why there is low recruitment of Theoretical HEP doctarates as prof. in Academia

"I've heard through the grapevine that you have more chance of becoming a professional athlete than becoming a professor in theoretical HEP(high energy physics)" is one of the things i have ...
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Machine learning researcher as a high-energy physics masters graduate [closed]

From what I understand, the majority of novel machine learning (ML) research is in applications such as natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). How can I focus my career on ...
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