Xi Yin 23 DAILY ICCV Tuesday obviously you leave family and also some friends behind. I think it's always very difficult then to have your support system, especially with a child. This is very much my reality. I sometimes would love to have parents or aunts around to split the effort. It's obviously not the case. This is, I would say, the drawback. Do you speak to her in Italian? Well, my husband is also Italian, so we only speak Italian at home. She's perfectly bilingual. I always joke that her mother tongue is English, because she started to go to nursery at nine, ten months. But I'm fine with that. My parents are a bit less. There is also an aspect that I really like of living abroad is that it really gives you the opportunity to grow even more! Now it's nine years I'm in the UK. I feel I really acquired some of the local habits. They become part of me, of my way of being. And I think this is a positive thing. It enables you to evolve and to discover that there might be different ways of living, of considering things, and that's fine. Your message to the community. There is one cause I'm really passionate about that is, especially in the STEM field, even more AI field, try to close the gender gap between men and women. But what I want to say, for any woman reading this interview, is don’t scared of the fact that maybe you're the only one in the room or a minority. Like, be brave! I'm doing my best to help, Valentina. I know, I know, this is why I accepted to interview! Read 160 FASCINATING interviews with Women in Computer Vision! Read 160 FASCINATING interviews with Women in Computer Vision! Valentina Salvatelli
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