The 2021 Stanford IBIIS-AIMI Retreat took place on September 27-28, 2021. The Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford (IBIIS) and Stanford Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging (AIMI) are delighted to share this fascinating panel discussion focused on career transitions, featuring young faculty and recent graduates who have recently made career decisions in academia and industry

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// Outline //

00:00 - Introductions, including current and previous roles

16:35 - How did you prepare yourself for the career path you chose, and what other options did you consider at that time? How did you know you made the right choices for you?

28:30 - Do you see yourself making any other career transitions in the future? What is it like to transition between academic and industry career paths?

32:08 - If you know you would spend some of your time as an academic & in industry, where would you start?

39:08 - To Nish Khandwala: What factors influenced your decision to forgo a PhD and do you think anything would have been different had you decided to obtain one?

41:02 - To Sarah Mattonen; You have mentored many students from different backgrounds, including medicine, engineering & bioinformatics. What projects have you worked on in the past that have translated to your current work?

42:30 - To Yuhao Zhang: You had quite a success in the academic realm when publishing papers. What was the main thing that made you decide not to stay in academia and do a postdoc, but to go to industry?

46:20 - To Akshay Chaudhari & Mirabela Rusu - In taking those paths, what were the biggest challenges you faced in terms of coming into your academic posts? What was unique about your pathway as a junior faculty relative to others who took a more traditional path, and what were some advantages that you saw emerge from the pathway that you took?

57:57 - Do we need to dispel the myth about academia being rigid? Have you ever felt in your career transition a resistance to flexibility?

1:02:57 - What is the reality of actually being able to transition between academia & industry? What are the barriers to this?

// Speakers //

Moderators:
Natasha Diba Sheybani - Postdocatoral Scholar (Rubin Lab), Stanford
Rogier van der Sluijs - Postdoctoral Scholar (Langlotz Lab), Stanford

Panelists:
Akshay Chaudhari - Assistant Professor of Radiology, Stanford
Nishith Khandwala - CEO and Co-Founder, Bunkerhill Health
Sarah Mattonen - Assistant Professor of Medical Biophysics, Western University
Mirabela Rusu - Assistant Professor of Radiology, Stanford
Yuhao Zhang - NLP Scientist, Amazon Web Services AI