Computer Vision News - February 2021

Back to you: what is your focus now? MILA has changed a lot over the years, and I felt it was time for me to let a new management take the lead. Montreal has become an artificial intelligence hub, and I thought that I could help AI develop in Europe. I joined a Belgian company with a wonderful, philanthropic mission: help language learning in order to bring people together. This was very much in line with my last position at MILA, as Director of AI for Humanity. But as soon as I got my visa for Belgium, the Covid-19 pandemic arrived, and that was a bummer. I am now in a transition doing consulting work: I like to build things, make things start. I help with technology transfer, and I coach employees with all the things that I learned through my career. I enjoy my perpetual challenge to adapt and to be flexible, building on the self-confidence that I learned through the years. What’s next? I want the last years of my career to count, to be relevant and to give me pleasure. That is the time when I can have the most impact and the largest contribution to the community. Find out 100 more interviews like this with Women in Science! Read our fascinating interview with Yoshua Bengio! 28 Women in Computer Vision “I was very naïve!” PhD defense at Paris Télécom in 1997