14 DAILY CVPR Women in Computer Vision Sunday look at it at NVIDIA, which is also a hardware company, is that we have the providers and the receivers. The providers are the hardware teams and the receivers are the software and algorithm teams. That's funny. I grew up in the generation for which Texas Instruments was the synonym of compute. So it's funny to hear from you that you left the company because of compute. Did you leave academia with no regrets? Oh, I have absolutely no regrets about leaving academia. And I think I made absolutely the right choice for myself. I like to build things. I've always liked to see my innovations in real tangible form and in people's hands. That's the biggest joy. I really don't like to have just theoretical papers: I like to see my ideas in action. I remember the time when I created an algorithm for face detection and it was incorporated into an NVIDIA tablet. And my little four-year-old daughter picked it up and her face was detected and I could tell her mommy did this. You have no regrets about Texas Instruments and no regrets about academia. No regrets about India too? Not really. So you are 100 percent looking forward. I have lived more of my life in the U.S. at this point than I've lived in India. All phases helped me to get to where I am. I think they all enriched me in experiences and helped me learn better about what was the right thing for me. I think they only just add to my experience. In a career there are ups and downs. How do you manage the downs? I think everything, even the not so positive experiences are learning experiences and they're opportunities for growth. Obviously, there is a phase of going through the pain and the shock. But after you've processed that, I think the best way to look at them is to reflect on how
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NTc3NzU=