Computer Vision News - February 2021

help with the contracts that the lab had with private corporations. I managed the organization until it reached 300 people. I think all my readers want to know what it is like working with Yoshua. We worked ten years together, so I got to know him well. What always struck me is his creative, artistic side, to which I can relate. His imagination is limitless. I think he owes it to the education that he received from his parents, who immigrated to France from Morocco. They lived through the freedom movement of May 1968 in Paris. They enrolled him as a very young child in a math learning program, and he became very fond of math in a creative environment, where you’re encouraged to think outside of the box. That made us always get along very well. I focused on organization and management, which freed his time for what he really likes: research. He always sees opportunities to grab fast. He thinks quickly, he’s brilliant. His memory is extraordinary! Yoshua is also very generous with colleagues: he shares his ideas, and he supports free access to research, a humanistic approach inherited from his parents’ values. He knows how to talk to people’s emotions and how to encourage them to get involved. 327 Myriam Côté “I want the last years of my career to count, to be relevant and to give me pleasure.” At Mila in 2019, a workshop led by Amir Banifatemi (CEO XPrize) - Standing and smiling in the center of the photo, Yoshua Bengio