MICCAI 2016 Daily - Thursday

wanted to see how it was, [ laughs again ] MICCAI Daily: Was that the right setting for you to get to know better, and delay for later the decision about what you wanted to do? Aïcha: I think so, because the nice think with biomedical engineering is that you get to see both worlds: you get to see the engineering part and the medical part as well. MICCAI Daily: Did you feel fit? Aïcha: No, I didn’t. I felt that basically I did not know enough to solve those problems. I wanted to know more, discover more challenges and see how I could help. That’s when I got my first internship at Siemens MICCAI Daily: How did you get it? Aïcha: I applied! [ laughs ] I had had a couple of internships before and I think this helps a lot. MICCAI Daily: Why did you chose an internship in the industry? Aïcha: I had already done an internship in a lab. So in this way I was seeing both domains. MICCAI Daily: How did you feel in each of them? Aïcha: The lab is more research- oriented and you are free to explore the problems you want. In the industry I was given a problem and also a methodology to solve it. So I had to figure out how that methodology could get combined in a certain way to solve the problem efficiently. I liked this applied activity better. MICCAI Daily: What happens when you do not solve the problem? Aïcha: That happens also during a PhD, what happens when it doesn’t work? That’s the whole point. CVPR Daily: Thursday Women in Science 13 MICCAI Daily: Thursday