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The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia


The Research Pipeline is Stalling The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled payments on active grants. Over 1,000 NSF research projec…

Meanwhile, academia continues to carry the burden: training the next generation, maintaining open infrastructure, and stewarding community benchmarks and standards—all while industry captures the lion’s share of the financial reward. For those in senior positions, that means using your influence, whether leading a research lab, directing an engineering team, or shaping corporate strategy, to keep our field’s intellectual infrastructure strong and vibrant. Dr. Vijay Janapa Reddi is a Professor at Harvard University, Vice President and co-founder of MLCommons, and author of the open-source Machine Learning Systems textbook and the TinyML edX course series.

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