The Good, the Bad, and the Bye Bye: Why I Left My Tenured Academic Job · Yanick Fratantonio
👋 I'm Yanick `reyammer` Fratantonio. I'm a Prof at EURECOM. I often work on Android security, but I'm also interested in reverse engineering, malware analysis, binary analysis, web security, etc. I ❤️ CTFs and I hack with OOO (DEFCON CTF organizers), Shellphish, & NOPS. I am a 100% premium-qu...
Hasnain says:
This was a long and interesting read on the tradeoffs of being in academia vs (potentials of) being in industry.
"With that being said, I know that someone may be actually interested in hearing these thoughts and my experience. When I was a PhD student and I needed to take the notorious academia vs. industry decision, I would have paid big bucks to read more thoughts on the various pros/cons. One of the stupidest things you can do is to take big decisions based on what other people do and think, but reading about other people's thought process has helped me a lot. It is time I do my part."
Posted on 2020-10-04T07:01:59+0000