It's possible, but if you have a lot of knowledge, I think he'd welcome the connection. It's also incredibly flattering if you can ask intelligent questions or

It's possible, but if you have a lot of knowledge, I think he'd welcome the connection. It's also incredibly flattering if you can ask intelligent questions or give intelligent appreciation about their papers. How else do you know your stiff is being read? Have a look at Exercise 3 of https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~weimerw/2008-615/homework/hw5.pdf https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~weimerw/2008-615/homework/hw5.pd... . Internalizing this advice has been life-changing for me. > Edit: btw, I thought I had met Armando so I just checked and we were both at the Dagstuhl conference on Inductive Programming (yet another byword for program synthesis) in 2018. I don't think we talked much but we were introduced and he gave a short talk. Small world! Cool!