Computer Vision News - September 2021

34 [ laughs ] That is really true! I really like Berkeley. I did my undergraduate and graduate studies at Berkeley. Go Bears! (For anyone who is out there from Berkeley) It was wonderful being at Berkeley. Stanford also has its perks. I have a different experience at Stanford. Both of them are interesting. When we have big football games, it's hard to decide on a team. You have 13 pages on your CV, starting in 2009. Can you tell us something about your life before those 13 pages? For me, it started in middle school. I grew up in Iran. I went to this special middle school whichwas actually pretty fun. Pretty much anyone in academia from Iran went to the same school. Maybe a bit too much? I do think it is a little too much. If you take six papers, that is what would have been like two papers in the old days. Now they’re in smaller pieces. ...Which makes it less painful when they are rejected by a conference or a journal. That’s a very good point! Because maybe you are not as invested in it. You can go back and improve it. It's a faster cycle… We did not mention that half of your scientific career was spent at another well-respected institution. You must have half your heart at Stanford and the other half at Berkeley. Women in Science “It was wonderful being at Berkeley!”