ECCV 2016 Daily - Wednesday

to her and told her I wanted to do my PhD. I didn’t apply to any PhD positions, aside from talking to her. She was interested in hiring me in Grenoble so I went there. ECCV Daily: What is it like to work with her? Can you tell our readers what it is like to work with Cordelia Schmid? Zeynep: It’s very fulfilling. She is very accessible. Whenever I had any problems, even sometimes technical questions, she would have time for me. We would have almost regular meetings, maybe once a week or once every two weeks. She was very interested in looking at the results. She has a very good intuition. When she sees results, she can say ok, there is something wrong, or there is something interesting that we have to explore. Sometimes she can even detect at first sight, that I have a bug in my code, just by looking at the results, because the way the results look, she can see that it is not possible that this can happen, so there must be something wrong in the code. ECCV Daily: Did you find anything challenging as a woman in your profession? Zeynep: Yes: career advice that I got wasn’t always encouraging. People were wondering why I don’t go back to Turkey and get married, for example. These kind of comments I heard from people. ECCV Daily: Were these comments from people who barely know you or from a closer circle? Zeynep: From a closer circle, in Europe ECCV Daily: How do you react to these kind of things? Do you just shake it off or do you address the opinion of that person? 12 ECCV Daily: Wednesday Women in Computer Vision