> Research is done, paper is published, engineers take the paper and implement. Standard operating procedure. Sounds awful (from a developer perspective). If e

> Research is done, paper is published, engineers take the paper and implement. Standard operating procedure. Sounds awful (from a developer perspective). If engineers are not getting involved until research is done and paper is published, you run the risk of writing a useless paper (useless from the perspective of the engineers who have to implement it; obviously, from the perspective of the researchers, it’s not useless at all, as in they got to publish yet another paper).