Computer Vision News - December 2021

51 Christina Koutsoumpa and an experience to continue. I’m still working on it! I’m not super thrilled when something doesn’t work but still, I have made progress.  Although the readers cannot see that, you gestured the word failures with inverted commas: “failures”. This is a great lesson. Is there anything else you’d like to share with our readers? Pursue your dreams! Do what you like. Value all factors in your life. Career is very important; the fulfilment of achievement is very important, but not the only thing. Try to become happy. This is very personal and different for each person. This is very generic advice that I would give to all people, especially girls since this is about women in science. Please don’t get discouraged when you feel like your environment does not expect you to succeed. When you feel like you may not make it or that someonewill look downon you, just ignore it. Keep trying. Keep doing your work. When you feel like it's difficult for you, imagine yourself in a man’s shoes. Think of what he would do and how he would see his fault, if there was a fault. Take courage from this. Just ignore all the noise and do what you like! I spoke to Jessica Sieren some time ago. She said, “ When you do a PhD, if you don’t have a crisis, you’re not doing it right! ” Yea! [ laughs ] For a PhD student, everyone goes through a tough time. If you don’t go through a tough time, maybe you’re not pushing yourself enough.  We spoke a lot about the past. I want my last question to be about the future. What is your dream? My dream is to work in my field and make an impact in my field. Maybe one day, I’ll start my own company and put in my own ideas. I’d love to see my ideas become a useful product Let me remind my readers that awesome Christina is available for work, and she is a great catch! Don’t miss out on her! More than 100 inspiring stories of Women in Science here! I find this really, really exciting, this combination of technology and medicine!