In the speaker’s view, graduate-student research in academia is most successful when researchers care about problems that most industry researchers are not pursuing.

“took like working at Princeton and then like later like finding my advisor like Omar at MIT like he's a fantastic advisor I will say though I I find that the most successful research from grad students or like in academia comes when people care about problems that maybe like”

“most people in industry are not looking at i think this is the issue that like a lot of grad students work on things that benefit like that look good to an industry lab like for example they'll work on some like some benchmark it's really popular now i mean i think benchmarks in 2023 were a very different story than benchmarks now there are a lot of people that work on like harnesses and like meta harnesses and like specific harnesses for you”