Ask HN: CS Researchers, why did you choose your subfield and niche?
My background:
CS rising junior, indecisive about choosing a sub field.
I want to pursue CS research before I graduate for its own sake and partly to compensate for my lackluster GPA for grad school. But each field seems to have a pet peeve:
1) AI/machine learning: too saturated, fear of an AI winter
2) Networks/security: boring, reading a research paper seems torturous
3) Bioinformatic/quantum computing: may never find their place in real world and die out
Etc.
It continues to amaze me how some people know exactly what they want to do in their freshman year or even earlier. My question is: what motivated you to pursue what you're doing right now and at what stage in your academic career?
CS rising junior, indecisive about choosing a sub field.
I want to pursue CS research before I graduate for its own sake and partly to compensate for my lackluster GPA for grad school. But each field seems to have a pet peeve:
1) AI/machine learning: too saturated, fear of an AI winter
2) Networks/security: boring, reading a research paper seems torturous
3) Bioinformatic/quantum computing: may never find their place in real world and die out
Etc.
It continues to amaze me how some people know exactly what they want to do in their freshman year or even earlier. My question is: what motivated you to pursue what you're doing right now and at what stage in your academic career?