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If you’re looking to get back into the materials research industry doing applied ML, now is a great time — no need to wait five years. In my experience there’s

by rsfern 6y ago

If you’re looking to get back into the materials research industry doing applied ML, now is a great time — no need to wait five years. In my experience there’s a lot of demand for people conversant in both fields, a lot of interest in adopting this kind of work, and a growing set of interesting opportunities. I work in this field at a national lab, but in my experience there are a lot of industry players trying to figure out how to grow in this area Edit: take a look at what the technical societies are doing. MRS and TMS have been rolling out educational programming targeted towards industry members. I’m not in the catalyst field really, but I’m sure ACS and AICHE have similar programming, and following that thread is probably a good way to figure out who’s interested

neltnerb 6y ago
Assuming you are working at PNNL I agree they have a great program. One of the few places I've collaborated with that understood the upsides involved. I do see more and more educational opportunities and attempts to be forward looking with this. They just always seem super undercooked like setting up an institute to encourage collaborating (but good luck working there at an early stage unless you're already a professor somewhere). Or more often only really open to current PhD students or postdocs if you're not already a professor. I'll figure it out eventually, I just wish it didn't feel like I have to bootstrap the whole thing to get anything to happen. I'm just sad that now that it might finally be possible for anyone to lead such an effort I don't have the stamina to do it.