Computer Vision News - December 2020

2 Women in Computer Vision 44 Naureen Mahmood is the CEO of Meshcapade, a tech startup based in Germany. She has been a research software engineer at theMax Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Find here 100 more interviews with Women in Computer Vision! Naureen, where were you before Max Planck? I also attended other institutes. I did my Master’s at Texas A&M. They have a computer visualization and animation program, which is sort of a cross between computer vision and computer graphics. Then I joined Max Planck as a research engineer. I was there for almost 6 or 7 years. Then we started this company, a tech startup here in Tübingen. W hat inspired you to start this company? That’s a very good question! [ laughs ] “… that has taken years and a lot of expertise!”