Any ML engineers here that have degrees from unrelated fields? [D]

Been going back and forth on mastering out from my PhD program in mechanical engineering. Research mostly involves ML though.

I want to be an ML engineer or ML research scientist (not sure yet), and I don’t know whether it’d be better to continue my PhD for another 2-3 years or whether to master out after this summer and then start working in an ML related role. Although, I’d probably have to take some months first to self-study some more …

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