Hire him and put him in R&D in some robotics company.
I was a professor for a long time. My observation was that often a top researcher was also a top teacher and even a top administrator. There are exceptions of course. But if someone is smart and effective at using their attention, those skills transfer to many things.
It’s a pain in the ass when allocating university roles. I want that person to do EVERYTHING ‘cos they always deliver.
A neural net can produce information outside of its original data set, but it is all and directly derived from that initial set. There are fundamental information constraints here. You cannot use a neural net to itself generate from its existing data set wholly new and original full quality training data for itself.
You can use a neural net to generate data, and you can train a net on that data, but you'll end up with something which is no good.