u/Same_Half3758

Hi,

looking for a company based in Azerbaijan, preferrably having a base in China!
or where can i find a reliable one?

thanks!

I'm curious to hear from people actively doing ML research (academia, industry research, or research engineers).

Over the past year, what do you think has changed the most in terms of how research is actually conducted?

• How has the role of AI and AI agents changed your research workflow?
• Has the publication process become more competitive or different?
• What new skills have become essential?
• Has the balance between theory, experimentation, and engineering shifted?
• What tools or practices are now considered standard that weren't a year ago?
• Has the overall pace of research changed your day-to-day work?

More broadly, if someone was an active ML researcher a year ago and is now coming back, what would surprise them the most?

I'd love to hear perspectives from PhD students, professors, research scientists, and research engineers about how the research ecosystem itself has evolved.

Looking for this?

We just set up a trading and freight forwarding company in China. Small team, no prior logistics experience on the team. We have a few existing clients — businesses in the Middle East that we've been helping source goods from China, and who currently arrange their own shipping.

Our immediate goal is to start handling their shipments ourselves. Medium term we want to grow into a full logistics operation — warehousing, consolidation, customs, eventually regional distribution.

We want to know how a company in our \ position actually takes the first operational step.

1. What is the very first thing a newly licensed FF in China should do before taking on their first shipment — what needs to be in place operationally that people overlook?
2. Should our first move be to subcontract everything to an established forwarder while we learn, or should we try to operate directly from the start even if it's messy?
3. What carrier and broker relationships do we absolutely need before we can move our first container — what's the minimum viable partner network?
4. For a team with no logistics background, what is the steepest learning curve — where will we struggle most in the first few months?