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There are rare instances of people coming back to academia after being very successful in industry. It's hard to say whether the rate is low because there's a b
by rflrob 12y ago
There are rare instances of people coming back to academia after being very successful in industry. It's hard to say whether the rate is low because there's a bias against it from the hiring committees, or if people are actually generally happy in industry and uninterested in going back, or likely some combination of both.
- hga 12y ago"after being very successful in industry" I've heard of one example of that in the MIT AI Lab in the '60-70s, although it helped that "very successful" can equal "can pay for his research budget" ^_^. And of course there weren't many real CS graduates to turn into faculty members in the bad old days.
- PaulHoule 12y agoBack in the glory days of the 1960's you'd often see a scientist who'd made big money for a company get an endowed chair somewhere.
- skosuri 12y agoI went to a startup after my phd for a few years, came back and am now a prof. I can't say I was very successful in industry. It happens, it's fairly rare, but it is definately becoming more common