Episode 19: Industry Vs. Academia

Interview with: Four Computer Scientists, each comparing their (often decades of) 
experience in both industry and academia. 

Episode Guide

In this Episode: Four Prominent Computer Scientists who have spent time in both academia and industry, over multiple decades, contrast their experiences in these two sectors. Featuring: Rico Malvar, Dilma Da Silva, Rodrigo Fonseca, Fadel Adib. This is a remix episode, featuring key snippets of conversations from Season 1 of the podcast.

• mm.ss: Segment Info (Index)
• 00.46: Introduction to Episode
• 01.54: Rico Malvar – Industry vs. Academia
• 05.02: Dilma Da Silva – Industry vs. Academia
• 08.40: Rodrigo Fonseca – Industry vs. Academia
• 11.19: Fadel Adib – Entrepreneurship in Grad School
• 19.04: Dilma Da Silva – US East Coast vs. US West Coast
• 21.00: Rico Malvar – US East Coast vs. US West Coast

About the Narrators in this Episode

• Rico Malvar (also, Episode 5)
• Dilma da Silva (also, Episode 5)
• Rodrigo Fonseca (also, Episode 5)
• Fadel Adib (also, Episode 9)

Useful Links

• Tomorrow’s Professor by Richard M. Reis [Amazon]
• Matt Welsh – Why I’m Leaving Harvard
• Carrie Lam – 11 Rewards of being a Teacher

Previously on this Podcast

In case you missed it! Previously on the Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast

• Several anonymous narrators, from across many continents. (Episode 15).
• Our interview with Danqi Chen, Gold Medal winner at IOI (Informatics Olympiad) in 2008 (only woman Gold medal winner), and student in famous Yao Class at Tsinghua University. (Episode 14).
• Our interview with Jelani Nelson, “immigrant” from US Virgin Islands and creator of AddisCoder program in Ethiopia (Episode 13), especially his last segment on IOI data inequity analysis.
• Our third segment (Episodes 9, 10, 11, 12) on Middle East, featuring entrepreneurs and a famous academic family from Iran, Lebanon, and Egypt , starting with the Middle East Entrepreneurs lead episode.
• Our second segment (Episodes 5, 6, 7, 8) featuring Computer Scientists from Brazil, all of whom spent careers in both academia and industry, going To and Fro between Brazil and US, and to and fro between academia and industry.
• Our first segment (Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4) featuring Computer Scientists from Yugoslavia, A Country That No Longer Exists?
• Check them out!

• Credits
  • Music Credits for Podcast
  • The caption picture at top of page is taken at Fort Funston in San Francisco. Pic taken by Indy Gupta.

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