Becoming a world class Professor..

I asked Open AI how a person can become a world class Professor. According to some of the top Professors in world class institutions good teaching and research record are essential prerequisites. When I interact with my colleagues I get to know many factors and the important ones remain the same.

According to Open AI a world-class professor requires a combination of factors, including academic achievements, personal qualities, and professional experiences. Here are some essential prerequisites that can help one become a world-class professor:

• Education: A solid foundation of formal education, such as a doctoral degree in the field of study, is typically required to become a professor. Being taught by great Professors is a great motivation for humans. Though the academic institutional heritage does carry some weightage, more often than not, hardwork and individual brilliance sidelines it. Edison or Einstein neither of them had access to great education but still they are recognised world over as great professionals. 
• Research Experience: It is essential to have a strong background in research in the specific field. This means having experience in designing and conducting research studies, analyzing data, and publishing research papers. Normal good quality research output reach is limited due to the high costs of subscription to world class journals. In Web 3.0 personal publishing is an important aspect. Doing formal research and knowledge updation, keeping aspects of research integrity is the future of high quality research. 
• Teaching Experience: You need to have experience in teaching and communicating complex ideas to students at various levels, from undergraduate to graduate programs. How to engage topics and in what order in the class, what all intellectual group activities can be assigned to students, all bring value to the students. Being able to bring latest knowledge concepts in the class to arouse student anxiety and understanding is necessary to make lectures captivating and motivating to students. 
• Strong Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills are essential for a professor, including the ability to convey complex information in an understandable manner, and to engage and motivate students. A Professor should also be well read on a lot of interesting aspects and global events to captivate the students and push them to reach greater heights. A good commanding voice with command of the
  
• Intellectual Curiosity: A world-class professor should have a deep intellectual curiosity, a desire to explore new ideas and theories, and a passion for learning. Keeping up-to-date with reading quality research material and global events with frequent interactions with learned well read professional colleagues can be enlightening for professors. When they bring these intellectual discussions back to the classroom interacting with the students, the students unknowingly are taken to a different high level of interaction and thinking. 
• Dedication and Commitment: Dedication and commitment are essential qualities for a professor. This means being willing to put in the time and effort necessary to excel in teaching, research, and service. This aspect gets meaningful with the understanding that great teaching comes with great humility too.
• Professional Network: Building a strong professional network with colleagues, peers, and researchers in the field is important for sharing ideas, collaborating on research projects, and staying current with the latest developments. Sharing one's knowledge with peers is a great way to go forward. If external networking is difficult, one can always try to network with professionals online and in our own community and benefit immensely from the high quality interactions.
• Professional Ethics: Upholding ethical standards is essential for a world-class professor. This means maintaining integrity in research and teaching, being respectful of students and colleagues, and adhering to the principles of academic freedom and free speech. Respecting other people's Intellectual property is very important. Whenever quoting somebody else's work quoting them, living or dead, adds value to our own authenticity and worth too. 
  
• Accessibility to students and colleagues. The moment we stay aloof from the students and from experimentation and learning, we are losing touch with reality and we will fumble. 
• Being open minded without bias : This is very important as most of the professors out of their seniority and experience develop biases and remain inaccessible to some sections of students, colleagues and the public. This kills the intellectual growth of the faculty member and kills or blights the intellectual curiosity of the student.
• Practice intellectual humility : given opportunities and facilities everyone can attain greatness and expertise. Understanding and accepting this truth would allow us to motivate and promote others to do good for the students.
• Having a cooperative mindset : cooperating with other faculty members and professional colleagues is vital in the success of a professor. The acceptance of the fact that no one is inevitable in the world will make us realise that we all live in a highly networked cooperative world. 
• Admitting to one's ignorance : No one knows everything in the world and admitting one's ignorance on some facts requires lot of courage and guts. If only one knows the limits of his/her knowledge can one improve and become a great Professor.
  

Overall, becoming a world-class professor requires a combination of academic excellence, teaching and research skills, strong communication abilities, intellectual curiosity, dedication, and professional ethics.