For my part, I was starting to consider questions of what my area of mathematics might have interesting things to say about machine learning. The industry job I

For my part, I was starting to consider questions of what my area of mathematics might have interesting things to say about machine learning. The industry job I landed in has me doing applied ML, and working through many of the subtleties of some interesting algorithms. As such, the research isn't necessarily so far off from the industry job, though the need for a small Big-O constrains things a bit.