Computer Vision News - May 2023

25 Abby Stylianou I would encourage PhD students: if there is something that you're passionate about, find ways to integrate that into the work you're doing. Push to have a paper about that. And I would encourage PhD advisors, researchadvisors,or researchmentors to let people do that. I think that's something we all fight for. We need the CVPR publication. We need the next grant, and they're not necessarily aligned, but we all need tomake sure we're still doing something impactful in the world. Over 100 inspiring interviews with successful Women in Science! Louis with young children. I wasn't leaving St. Louis. I wanted to be with my family. So I invited the chair of the Computer Science Department at St. Louis University at the time to my dissertation defense at Washington University. And I said, I don't think you have a position right now, but I think I do really cool work, and I'd be interested in joining your faculty if there were ever an opportunity.  And the rest is history?  Yes! He made a position for me. He got the research institute at St. Louis University and said, “Let's create a position!” And I've been here since 2019.