Been in research for the past 12 years... Work in the field of systems health diagnosis and prognosis. Don't do hard core coding on a daily basis but I have a PhD in cs and used to be good at it. I am good with physics Modeling and simulation and also Uncertainty Management. Work with particle filtering and unscented filtering and Monte Carlo simulations The compensation is nothing compared to other bay area companies and of course no stock. I feel like a fool to have stuck to this job for so long. I want to do good work and get paid market value. But I'm scared that I am not employable In a bay area company any more.

I would appreciable any advice you may have as to what should I do to feel employable again.

Should I join the machine learning and data science band wagon? Or should I stick to my model based modeling and simulation and uncertainty management strengths?

I know matlab very well... I'm learning python... But can I give a technical interview in matlab?

What companies should I target?

Any other advice?

Thanks a ton!