Computer Vision News - June 2021

331 Julie Shah nurse taking over the job of a nurse? Or: is it uplifting the nurse to make better decisions? Providing the right information, the right time, making certain suggestions to reduce cognitive load, freeing up the nurse’s capacity to do more complex aspects of their job - all of these are very much squarely in the domain of the engineer and computer scientist. Very passionately, we need to be training our engineers and computer scientists on all of these questions as sort of the bread and butter of what they do with technology. Let’s stop at the one word you just used but in a different context: passionately. You obviously are passionate about the things that you do. How do you continue to feel so passionate about something you do all the time? How is this passion fed? For me, and I tell this to my students and my researchers, it’s critically important to live a happy, well-balanced life. That’s the only way you do your best, most creative work. Taking care of yourself, being well rested, eating well, having hobbies and things you enjoy outside of work - all of this adds energy and helps make you more successful, not just in your work but in all parts of your life. Where do I get my energy from? I do not know! I have a two-and-a-half- year-old and a four-and-a-half-year- old. They keep me busy! I don’t know where their energy comes from! I just work to keep up! What was the most fascinating moment in your career? Which moment of discovery really gave you that “wow” factor? That’s a great question!