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I know someone who moved from Postdoc level Physics to Machine Learning. He is a strong and capable member on one of the teams that I work with. Its certainly
by papaf 10y ago
I know someone who moved from Postdoc level Physics to Machine Learning. He is a strong and capable member on one of the teams that I work with.
Its certainly possible, but my guess is the big challenge is persuading a company that this is actually possible.
His strengths are being to understand the mathematical concepts and use them as tools to solve real world problems. I do not know your subject, but I would recommend finding something in what you do and applying it to tech -- you should be aiming MUCH higher than throwing a web application together.
Edit: I'd also recommend applying to Google and not expecting to make through the interviews. The amount of effort in getting up to interview level there certainly helps in getting positions in less well known companies.
- stablemap 10y ago>the big challenge is persuading a company that this is actually possible I wanted to say this but didn't want to be presume too much, so thank you for saying it -- getting a foot in the door seems a problem. I'd like to think that I'd have strengths similar to your physicist friend, but I can't prove that right now. I work in algebraic geometry. There is an "applied" subfield but I have very little knowledge of what it is those people do, and my experience is that mathematicians have a funny definition of application. Reading some papers tomorrow couldn't hurt, though. Of course I still want to work on interesting problems.