7/15/2014 Career Advice: Where can someone interested in Theoretical Computer Science continue his/her research after PhD

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CareerAdvice:Wherecansomeoneinterestedin
TheoreticalComputerSciencecontinuehis/her
researchafterPhDapartfromjoiningschoolsas
teacher?
DocompanieslikeGoogle,FBtakethem?
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Thanks for A2A. Sure Google, Microsoft, IBM are actively recruiting PhD in
Theoretical CS. However try looking at various options as listed below. The
following North American organizations are actively pursuing research in
computer science. They are quite active in the field and am sure will have
Theoretical CS jobs. Adobe AT&T Avaya Bosch CA Labs Cray
eBay Fuji Xerox Fujitsu GE Labs Google HP IBM Intel Lucent
Microsoft Mitsubishi NEC Nokia PARC Ricoh Siemens SRI
International Sun Yahoo Argonne National Lab Army Research
Laboratory (ARL) Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) Lawrence
Livermore National Lab (LLNL) NASA Ames Research Center National
Institute of Standards and Technology National Renewable Energy Lab
(NREL) Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) San Diego
Supercomputer Center Sandia National Lab Oak Ridge National
Laboratory Texas Advanced Computing Center Sony Computer Science
Laboratory Computer Science Laboratory Computer Science Research
Institute Sandia Computer Science IBM Few other listed CS research labs
around the world:
ANU - The Australian National University Supercomputer Facility provides
computing infrastructure to students across Australia. FAQs and links to
other resources.
ASCI (Sandia National Lab) - Current research and archive of newsletters.
Adaptive Modeling and Pattern Recognition Research Group - Project
descriptions, publications, and software/data downloads of new algorithms
for modeling techniques, pattern recognition and optimization tasks. Part of
the Center for Applied Computer Science, Berlin.
Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) at Livermore - Computing
alliance funded by the Department of Defense to research modeling and
simulation. Information about current research.
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center - Description of computing facilities
and links to research projects.
BRICS - Basic Research in Computer Science, University of Aarhus,
Denmark. News, projects, publications, personnel, meetings.
Bell Labs Computing Sciences Research Center - Lucent Technologies,
Murray Hill, NJ, USA.
CERFACS - The European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in
Scientific Computation researches efficient algorithms for solving scientific
problems. Information about research, seminars, and publications....
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In at least some of the giant corporations this is possible.
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Microsoft Research is in effect a large private computer science department.
Quite a bit of the research happening there has a strongly theoretical bent. See
e.g. Theory - Microsoft Research
HP Labs has a theory group. See research : information theory : publications
Google has the policy of allowing its employees 20 per cent free time, so this in
principle allows you to spend some time on research-related activities. The
Danish computer scientist Sren Lassen (who is now working for Facebook)
was able to continue publishing while working for Google.


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Microsoft, HP, Apple, Google, IBM and most giant corporations have teams
were pure research is done.
IBM files almost 1000 patents a year in diverse fields, electronics, software and
even materials science.
Getting into one of these companies as a researcher is quite hard though!


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I took a leaf out of Stephen Wolfram's book and founded my own company in
order to fund my own research. Short of winning the lottery, I think it is the
best way to get ultimate freedom.
I can work on whatever I want whenever I want. Even though I'm not in a lab,
I still get to talk to world experts (e.g. I conversed with Hans Boehm about my
GC research on the gc-list). I can publish my research and peer review on a
blog. I don't need to fight for grant funding or with journal reviewers. Highly
recommended...


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