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I am a former academic now working in tech. In the past year I have missed research. I don't have the time or patience to go through the whole peer-review process in my spare time. Furthermore, some aspects of peer-reviewed scientific writing are quite boring to me e.g. introductions, trying to sell the importance of your results. Instead, I find that I can scratch my research itch by doing what I want, then uploadin…
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I published the first three while in grad school. After grad school, my advisor and I just kept collaborating meeting once a week for an hour or two. I was never paid to do academic research, it has always been a hobby for me. I have only published one article where I was the sole author.
In what area you are interested in? I guess we could create a small "research group"... I would join and give my contribute.
I'm thinking about expanding on the ideas of Nicholas Nassim Taleb. For instance the concept of anti-fragility. My academic background is in information studies but I'm not married to the field.
while working on my phd my focus was on biometrics where i had a few publications, but moved onto robotics/autonomy so it took a bit to ramp up in the domain, but after a few years i'm close to where i was and just submitted 3 papers to ICRA last week
to echo other comments here, there's no way i'd have any output if i wasn't working with others on these papers
I do. I was in academia for over 15 years, and exited almost 2 years ago. Since then I've published quite a few papers, and stayed active in conference organization / journal editorial activities. Lately, I've slowed down notoriously, I'm busy enough with my day job. I think it helps if you have a good group of people to work with, since it motivates you, and you get good feedback (also helpful if they're still in ac…
Why did you decide to exit academia?
I published more than 50 papers, some in top journals, and most of them as the first author; I still find frustrating that companies (recruiters, hiring managers, peers) don't associate that kind of production and its determinants (scientific skills, coding, writing, persistence) to proxies of potential added value to the company.
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2nd Edit: changed "manuscripts" to "papers"
I switched to tech one year ago after more than * years in academia (biology). I am still publishing, mostly papers that were half-completed or going through the peer-review process. I enjoy writing in general and I also enjoy writing research papers, but the peer-review process is largely dreadful and it is difficult to justify spending considerable time doing something that I have already done for years, I moved aw…