Its hard, we get a lot of emails and ignore most of them. You need to find some interesting insight or question, not "can you work with me." Making me think ab

Its hard, we get a lot of emails and ignore most of them. You need to find some interesting insight or question, not "can you work with me." Making me think about research is a welcome thing. Making me think about managing people, not so much. Couple of tricks: try not engaging via email. Twitter works (but again, make it a stimulating conversation, not a "work work" one). Or if they have code on github under active development, try contributing there.