{"id":725,"date":"2015-02-24T05:20:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T05:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klbtrblgdb01.cloudapp.net\/blog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2017-04-06T15:54:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T15:54:54","slug":"phd-expertise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/phd-expertise\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the industry tapping into the full potential of PhD expertise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the industry keeps pointing out to the lack of qualified talent, we continue to see various analysts pointing out the exact reverse \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2013\/02\/the-phd-bust-americas-awful-market-for-young-scientists-in-7-charts\/273339\/\" target=\"_blank\">there\u2019s a surplus of scientists<\/a>. As the debate rages on, PhDs and postdocs seem to be taking the bearing the brunt since a very small percentage of them end up getting plum positions in academia. Some are lucky enough to get good jobs in the industry, whereas others end up toiling as a low-paid lab hand (read as postdocs). The graph below illustrates this point quite well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Postdoc-salaries.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-726 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Postdoc-salaries-300x190.png\" alt=\"Postdoc salaries\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Postdoc-salaries-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Postdoc-salaries-326x205.png 326w, https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Postdoc-salaries.png 578w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Businesses remain skeptical about the availability of suitable PhD expertise for the industry. However, the industry is probably losing out on brilliant PhD expertise that can change things drastically in the way businesses are conducted. Time is ripe for a mindset change, and this can be brought about quickly by bright PhDs and postdocs.<\/p>\n<p>An example might help in making my point a bit clearer. You\u2019ve always believed that every time an application on your smartphone tries to access your location, you\u2019re alerted and the feature is enabled only once you give an explicit go ahead. We\u2019re quite cautious about our privacy and turn off this feature on most occasions. However, Yan Michalevsky and a few of his pals at Stanford University in California have now proved that we actually carry the technology to be tracked right in our pockets. It turns out that a smartphone\u2019s power usage depends largely on the distance from the nearest base station.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Malware can determine the location of a smartphone simply by measuring the way it uses power, a PhD student shows: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/R9YzEt9X0H\">http:\/\/t.co\/R9YzEt9X0H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stanford University (@Stanford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stanford\/status\/569963935773933568\">February 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yan et al. have proved that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/view\/535346\/how-malware-can-track-your-smartphone-without-using-location-data\/\" target=\"_blank\">malicious software can determine the position of a smartphone<\/a> simply by measuring the way it uses the power.\u00a0It\u2019s amazing how a different angle introduced by a few bright PhD experts can change your perspective around privacy. It\u2019s time for the industry to sit up and take notice. Are the powers-that-be at Android and iOS listening?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the industry keeps pointing out to the lack of qualified talent, we continue to see various analysts pointing out the exact reverse \u2013 there\u2019s a surplus of scientists. 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