15 DAILY CVPR Saturday Elisabeta Oneata Apparently, after your PhD, you decided to continue your career in the industry and not in academia. Is this by chance or is it something that you decided for a reason? Well, I just wanted to work in research. And it happened that shortly after I finished my PhD, I took a two-year break when my daughter was born. So I felt like I needed to make a change, and in some way going into academia in Romania it felt a bit hard because I needed to invest time in teaching and going in front of people - which I'm not very comfortable with. So I tried to find a position as close as possible to academic research, but in a company; and I was lucky enough to find this position here at Bitdefender. Now that you are at Bitdefender - you might still have to explain to people, to talk to groups of people. You certainly do. I certainly do have to do this. You cannot run away from it. And I still teach, but only for about two hours, a class that we have some collaborations with our local universities. So yes, I cannot run away from it. Moving toward industry started a bit before, when I worked for one year at Google here in Romania. But since it was with my PhD supervisor, I think that the transition felt smoother from academia towards industry. I am sure that the more you become knowledgeable about your science, it becomes easier to tell about it to other people. Is that right? Yes, that's right. But I feel that in order to be comfortable with the things that you're working on, you need to be good at them. You need to study them in depth, which is really hard because it evolves very quickly. And I personally always feel
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