Computer Vision News - October 2021

53 Catarina Barata Best of MICCAI 2021 I’m sure that it is much more fun to do in-person teaching. [ Laughs ] Yes, definitely! Can you tell us a story that happened in class? I look younger than I am. Whenever I go to the classroom, usually the students think that I’m another student! [ laughs ] I enter the classroom. I put everything on the table, and they remain outside. They just remain outside! I go to the door and tell them, “ You can come in! ” They are like, “ Are you the professor?! ” I can relate : as a very young graduate, I interviewed candidates for my university. One of them tried to explain to me the difference between “ people of his generation ” and mine… he didn’t realize I was much younger than he was! [ Both laugh ] When they get comfortable with me, they say things like, “ So teacher, when did you finish your degree? ” I tell them, “ I finished my degree way before you started yours! ” [ laughs ] It’s not impolite. They are just dying to ask! [ laughs ] Is there anything you’d like to tell the world? There’s something I want to share about my field of skin cancer. We need to bring people together. We are researchers in computer vision and machine learning. We are just one piece of this puzzle. For MICCAI, if we are working in medicine, we should bring in doctors. We should bring researchers from other fields. This can make beautiful things happen! Not just looking at the things we do, but opening up our work to others! More than 100 inspiring interviews with successful Women in Science!