15 Computer Vision News Computer Vision News think about the career path with academia, the one you just mentioned about having students and mentoring students, I think that would also have been great. I really do think there are just many different parallel paths that life can provide to you, and it kind of always works out. Whether it’s industry or academia, I think you can always find a way to make yourself happy. Some pillars of this community, like Yann LeCun, are champions of double affiliation. He is at the same time a professor at NYU and the leader of Meta AI. Those are two big responsibilities, and he is very serious about both of them. Many people do it. What do you think of that? Yeah, I like it. It sounds to me like this could be the best of both worlds, right? Not only do you have something that’s concrete and applying, and you participate a lot in the industry, but you’re also super close to the actual core research. Should we infer that Alice is available for a tenure track at some great university? Let’s do it. Let’s consider it! [she laughs] I heard you also went abroad for a few years. Yeah, for more than a few years. I was born and raised in France, but then all of my higher education, past high school, so university, master’s, and PhD, I was in the US for that. Then I did two years at the Broad Institute. Why did you make the brave choice to move far away from your nest? Hmm that’s a good question. Thank you. [Alice laughs] It’s interesting because people tell me that, but it did not feel brave at all at the time. It just felt like the one thing to explore. “I do love research, and I tend to romanticize academia a little bit!” Alice Lucas
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