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Maryam Sadeghi is the CEO and Co- Founder of MetaOptima Technology. She completed her PhD in Computing Science and Medical Imaging at Simon Fraser University in the Medical Image Analysis lab. She also received a scholarship for her postdoc fellow in dermatology at UBC Skin Care Center and BC Cancer Agency. Read 100 more interviews with women in Computer Vision Maryam, can you tell us about your background? My work is at the intersection of computing science, image processing, medical imaging, dermatology. And you are not a native Canadian. I am actually Iranian-Canadian. I was born in Iran. I completed my undergrad in Computer Hardware Engineering at one of the top universities in Tehran. Then I came to Canada for my PhD in medical imaging. I love the country. It ’ s an amazing place. It ’ s a great opportunity for anyone who wants to innovate. Where shall we begin from? I think probably my journey from my research labs and getting into the entrepreneurship side, continuing the research from the labs to making a product, to serving patients and doctors globally. The mike is yours! I hope sharing this will be helpful for many of the amazing students and scientists who are in the programs contributing to CVPR, moving science forward in this domain. My training and my undergrad, as I mentioned, was in computer engineering and hardware engineering back in Iran from IUST, Iran University of Science and Technology. My research was focused on image processing and traffic control, and I learned about computer vision in my undergrad program. I had an amazing supervisor, Stella Atkins, who really contributed to my success in my grad program and academic training and also to my professional career. As an advisor and a scientist, she gave me the opportunity to shine in my PhD program. I want to be someone like her one day. I love my science hat more than my business hat, so I ’ m hoping one day I will be back on the academic side. Anyway, that was a good experience … How old were you when you came from Iran to Canada? I think I was 27. That is very young! Did you come with your family or by yourself? It ’ s a very good question. My husband Majid was in Montreal for his Master ’ s 18 DAILY CVPR Tuesday Women in Computer Vision