I have time till july to think about this as you suggested. will make a post if I have chosen going in a particular direction.

Thank you so much for your advice.

I think I have to get used to reading scientific papers. could you tell me where to start, I mean some papers which doesn’t require a lot of pre-knowledge?

I am sorry for the terse response.

here is some context:

I have done bachelors in CS and didn’t do very well. I wasn’t that bad at it either. now the reason I am interested in research/teaching because I love learning new things and teaching helps retain stuff I have already learned. yes I am willing to give hours into it.

it’s really hard to pick a subject though, I was thinking of AI/ML because it’s currently hot and one might have more opportunity in it. besides it I would want to know other fields for research. you have PhD in CS, could you guide me what we do and dont etc. what’s the process if I chose let’s say cryptography ( which I like ) then what would my next step will be?

the other person said AI/ML is saturated so don’t know what to do. it’s for sure that I want to get into teaching/research just don’t know if it will be AI/ML.

yes, I did okay in algorithms class. but I am sure if I give enough efforts I can do this

You would be better served by getting skills in another field that AI/ML relies on or where AI/ML can be applier

you mean something like python or SQL ? yes I want to master these tools but it takes a lot of time to do so.

main reason for having this degree is to get a decent job. besides it would be great if I can get into research area and teaching, I like doing that too

Asking how the job will be seems like the wrong question to me, when you’re trying to answer what the studies will be

I want my study to be fruitful. that’s why I also want to know about job opportunity. it’s just that I don’t see use cases of AI/ML in daily life. the only thing installed is an OCR. wanted some perspective that’s all.

it’s going good, just signed up for Beehaw :D

excited to share thoughts and experience here.

other than that learning Azure to apply for devops job. ( cloud is harder than I thought )