Computer Vision News - November 2022

20 Women in Computer Vision little bit open about locations and where various opportunities might be. There are a lot of opportunities that I think are quite nice in Germany. You certainly have a very strong American identity, being born there and being raised there. Do you feel also any Asian identity and have you started to feel any European identity? It's an interesting question. I definitely felt very Chinese when I was a kid because my parents are basically first-generation immigrants to the U.S. I grew up with them speaking Chinese to me, and we went to visit China every two years. But as I got older, around my teenage years, I started to feel that this cultural difference between California and China was quite that's what I did in Munich, and I am now also a W2 professor, meaning I do have that official professor role now. Can you share with us how that happened? And secondly, did you have any hesitation in accepting the offer? How did it happen? I applied for the funding, and they were nice enough to provide me with the funding. [ laughs ] Maybe you're asking why I was looking for these kinds of positions? I initially thought I wanted to go into industry, so I did an internship at Google, and I still think industry research is super cool. You see all of this crazy stuff like Imagen and these amazing text-to-video things that come out of industry. But I found it was quite a different environment from the academic environment, and I had gotten so used to being in an academic environment. I wanted to try it out for a bit longer and figure out what the possibilities are there. Of course, the move from California to Munich was large, and I was probably over-eager [ laughs ]. Youwere born in California? Yes. What was the experience like to leave your native country and go to Europe?  If you want to be in academia, then you are really looking for a top institution with a lot of good students. Universities only exist in certain locations, right? So, you need to be a