Computer Vision News - May 2020

2 Summary Wo en in Computer Vision 36 a long time, but at the end, I think I’m patient enough. My patience really has paid off. What is there in common between the career you are doing nowand the career that you would have had if you had studied chemistry? What is that special quality that you would have brought to the table in any career? I think whatever the domain, I would have ended up helping people. I’m always helping others, even here when I’m doing some testing on technologies. It’s still always to help someone find solutions. This is really the common denominator. In the same suburb? No, I went to Grenoble. Then, my partner found a position in Switzerland, and I followed. Being a software engineer, it wasmuch easier forme to find a position. I could find one in less than a month. Originally, which suburb of Paris did you grow up in? It was the south of Paris: L'Haÿ-les-Roses. When did you choose a career in science? The thing is that I was pretty good at school, and I didn’t know what to do. I kept doing the most challenging things all of the time so that I could take my final decision at the very end. When I was doing those preparatory classes, I could either join Chimie ParisTech to study chemistry or signal processing. They were two completely different domains and I chose signal processing. That’s a life changing choice! I know! So I could have been doing chemistry in Paris instead of doing signal processing in Grenoble. I don’t know where I would have been if I had done chemistry in Paris. No regrets? No, because the next position will still be in a regulatory domain where I think I would be able to help people again. I’m fine with that. I’m really happy. It took