After the last coffee break I needed to talk to a colleague, so I missed most of the last session.

Thanks to the organisers and the speakers for sharing their insights with us!

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Anyway: what I like about prof. Hoda's point is that academia can be a bit of an ivory tower bubble, and "real" questions from industry can really ground, guide and inform your research.

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Panel discussion on Industrial & Academic Careers. I really like the point just made by prof. Rashina Hoda. She said that industry is very good at asking the hard questions. She shared a story of a time she presented her paper, and someone from industry basically asked "so what? What are you going to do with this?", and she was like "What so what? Isn't a paper enough!?"

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I love the title of the next talk: SE Career as a Function of Your Degree and Personality, by prof. Vivy Suhendra.

"CS is developing so fast, that what we study is less important than the skills you learn while you study it. However, there is overlap between what you learn in undergraduate studies and what we'll eventually do at work."

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After a panel discussion on Research and a refreshing lunch, we are now back for a talk by prof. Tao Xie, titled "Perspectives on Advancing Academic Career".

He starts with a discussion of which research topic to choose for your career, citing these slides as his source: https://cra.org/cra-wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2015/05/Finding-a-Research-Topic-.pdf

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Prof. Chechik talked about the differences between academic research and industry research. She gave some examples of times where she collaborated with industry, while still being able to do academic research.

I loved her outlook on supervision. Her research directions are in large part informed by the curiosity of her students.

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