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big research topic. It’s this relationship with the hospital but also with the product team, which is a world that I never encountered before. It’s very challenging. I like to work with them. I like to understand their troubles. I ask myself, “ What is challenging them and what can I do to make the it easier? ” What attracts you to the medical field? I studied mathematics and computer science. I really like it. I really like the theoretical part, the challenge of setting up problems and finding solutions. But I was really looking for a real-world application that could impact people. In the medical field, there are still a lot of questions that are not answered, and so we are still discovering them every day. That makes it very interesting! I'm trying to understand if the only difference between you and a doctor is that you don't see blood. I wish I didn't see blood. I think I see too much blood. Really? When they're showing me the video of surgery and things … I always feel like I could have never been a doctor anyway. Tell us about it. We want to know all about it! We worked a bit on surgical enhancements, trying to develop algorithms to ease the surgical workflow. When it's laparoscopic, for example, and there we are working with images, and sometimes they are a bit bloody. A few years back, a Belarusian surgeon - Olga Raznitsyna - told me that she's very much scared of blood. I said, “ How can you be scared by blood if you're a surgeon? ” And she said, “ Actually because I'm a surgeon, I'm scared of blood because I know that the place of blood is inside the body. So if I see it, it means that it's not in the right place or something is going wrong. ” That's true. Can you tell us about your time at Inria? 20 VISION MIDL Women in Science