when I went to high school, I knew that if I wanted to go towards this path, I needed to study computer science. Before this, I also loved math. Has everything always moved in that direction? Almost. Currently, I'm not working on robotics, but from the moment I entered university, I realized I was more interested in the intelligence end than the hardware end. Okay, imagine that I give you a big grant to work on anything you want. What would it be? It would be the thing that I am currently working on with predicting future videos, and also the same for medical imaging. Will that be the subject of your thesis in six months? Not exactly, although the subject of my thesis was the foundation for that; it was working on images without any temporal data. But in the future, I want to go in that direction. If I could give you something that you don't already have, what would it be? Probably money. [laughs] More money for you or for your research? Well, for example, one of the biggest choices of PhD holders is to go towards academia or industry. I'm still considering going for both because academia doesn't have much money, and industry has. If you want to have a nice life and also work in your interest, then you need to have both of these. I see. You don't see this getting mended very soon? In some countries, it is fine. For example, in Germany it is good, and also in Switzerland. But in some countries, especially academia, it does not have much money and you don't get paid well. What's the situation in Iran? So many Iranian scientists go abroad. Why do they go away? One of the reasons is the current economic situation. They cannot find very well-suited jobs. They also see others having better lives when they go abroad, so they follow the samepath. So there is no solution? At this point, I am not sure. Maybe if the government changes their attitude. 25 DAILY ICCV Thursday Azade Farshad
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