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.

Masters degrees aren’t for people who did okay.

fine, you got me! I was terrible at it. but don’t I deserve a second chance?? I will do better in Masters.

If there were circumstances that contributed to not doing as well as you could have you don’t need to feel like you could do better, you need a specific plan to do better.

I didn’t admit it in the post but I wasn’t mentally well when I was doing Masters. I had severe social anxiety and afraid of everything. which contributed into not so good performance in bachelors. but now after taking medicines for 2 years I am fine. it feels like Masters could be my second chance.

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.

you don’t have to tolerate this. we have nice content here too \o/

that’s exactly why I signed up here! Thank you

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 )