Good morning RG community,
Seeking guidance please!
I had an interesting email exchange regarding sustainable fire safety operations, machine learning, and sustainable smart cities today. Bottom-line, my colleague could not accept my position (sustainability applies to Fire Safety & Planning.
Advice please, how would you convince a very bright researcher to think more broadly? Obviously, fire safety is more pressing but my colleague does not want to discuss a small project scope change could create an important technology innovation for all society.
Hi John,
I wish you could give us a bit more information regarding your colleague's response to your suggestion. Nevertheless, here are my assumptions:
Could it be that your colleague does not have any background in the kind of research you are proposing? Are you the first person to investigate this type of technology?
Overall, I think maybe you could provide him with some cutting-edge and recently-conducted research and talk to him about the significance of such project...
Also, sometimes people are 'just not interested' in the proposed research and in that case, i recommend you should seek for a researcher with similar research interests to that of yours.
Good luck!
Soroush Masoumzadeh thank you for your feedback. Here is a bit more background. I lead the sustainability team for our data science group. One of many projects in our portfolio includes improving fire safety operations. The project that I mention above is focused on predicting and optimizing future fire response resources. We expect our findings to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and maybe optimize water resources.
I think you are correct, this topic may not be interesting to my colleague. Thank you for your feedback!
Hi John,
I need to understand your concept of fire safety sustainability. is the research geared towards design approach or technology/science innovations or pahaps both. whichever, you need reserchers that has background knowledge and interst in these areas.
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