CVPR Daily - Monday

22 DAILY CVPR Monday people who tend to have a more timid personality, which tends to correlate with women and how we were raised. In research, a lot of getting to know people and getting to have your research known is communicating effectively. When you communicate, you have to be direct and confident. That was one thing I learned during that process: how to present yourself and how to present your research in a way that it can be best represented, understood by people, and also taken seriously. You are doing it very well! Can you tell us something inspiring that you learned at Georgia Tech? Teaching at Georgia Tech is a really different experience than being a PhD student! The teaching comes more from the students, I would say, both in terms of the classroom as well as the students that I’m mentoring. I’m really fortunate to have some really great PhD students in my first cohort. One thing that I’ve learned from them so far is to be open minded in research, to let them learn to be autonomous, come up with ideas, question the things that I say, so we can have a more intellectually fruitful back and forth, as well as respecting the fact that everyone is an individual. One mode of interacting is not going to fit everybody. Tell us what is exciting about robustness. The world is starting to use this technology. It has been used in computer vision and visual recognition. It’s only going to expand with more time and more broadly in ways that we already understand and ways that we don’t understand yet. I have some concerns about the way that it’s being deployed, especially with non-experts, namely with open access to software and models and data. That’s so prolific Women in Computer Vision