19 Computer Vision News enough. I’ve encountered times when it’s very difficult to keep working on research, especially when you are not getting any new results. I just felt like if I had gone to the industry, if I had just gone to get a regular job, my life would have been easier. But I always refer back to the first research I did with Alex. When I did this research, I had the opportunity to present it at a conference in Tunisia. After I presented this work, a lot of people came up to me asking me questions about how I was able to do this sort of work, how they can apply it to their own research and everything. Then afterwards, I also had the opportunity to present it at a Women in AI conference in Ghana, and people asked me lots of questions about how I was able to do that. How can this be applied to our daily lives? Anytime I’mkind of stuck in a loop where I feel like I don’t want to continue with research anymore, I just refer back to that, and then I realize that this research that I thought I was doing just for fun has actually impacted the lives of so many people. Because of that, I don’t want to stop. I want to keep researching, and I want to keep making the lives of people better. It’s not up to me to decide when I want to stop. I just have to keep doing this for the sake of my soul, for the sake of my country, and for the sake of the whole world, and that’s just what motivates me to keep on going! Khadija Iddrisu
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