Computer Vision News - October 2019

Women in Computer Vision 28 Who makes the decision? You or the computer? We do it together. Can you tell me when you decided to become a scientist? My internship was actually in R&D, but it was more on the computational side and it was more programming. and more interesting. Then I worked as a content developer, as a tech-end developer, and as a full-stack developer. I had a lot of hands-on experience in codes and producing actual programs. It was very interesting to do this, but my dream was to do AI. I was always interested in AI. I was always reading articles, what’s happening in the field and how it will be in the future. Day by day, I wanted to do more of that. I started working just four days per week. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, I started taking courses in machine learning and deep learning. It became more and more interesting. Where did you study? At Coursera… That was actually a big change for me in my way of thinking and the way of approaching my work. In the end, I decided to change my field from computer science to research. I did an internship at Sightcorp. After that, I became an actual employee. kid. With mathematics, there was also a profile for programming. I was exposed more and more to programming. At that time, I bought a computer. I started using it for programming. That was the time I decided, well, that is what I want to do with my life. What can you tell us about the Bulgarian education system? Is there anything special there? It is just a regular education system. You have preschool, high school, and then you go to university where you can choose from different profiles. It seems you are a very lucky girl and that you are very happy. What is your next dream? I really want to become a team lead and have more seniority in my position. I am striving to do this!