moment it felt like, okay, it seems to work! How did you like doing your masters in the UK? I loved it! Tell us about it, make us dream! It was a great exposure for me to meet so many international students. There was this cultural novelty in talking to people all over the world and saying like, okay, these are people like me. I feel that that there was more emphasis on practical aspects, intuition and understanding, rather than the theoretical abstract. And I do need this part of intuition in order to build these mental models of what I'm working on. So it felt good for me. I think that the relationship between professors and students was a bit more natural. I felt more confident to ask questions and to be wrong, than I felt back in my home country. Overall it was a really nice experience. Where do you think Romania is going? I feel it's going in in a good direction. I've been here for the past 12 to 13 years since I started and especially when I came back from my masters, it felt really hard to think that I could find here a research position that would allow me to do work at the highest standards. So people have more opportunities here in Romania than there used to be like 10 to 12 years ago. Where are you based, Elisabeta? In Bucharest. Okay, tell us something about Bitdefender that we don't know. No secrets, only things that we are allowed to know. I think that not many people know about our theoretical research team, which is not a very large one. We are like 10 to 15 people. But what is particularly about it is that we're trying to do more like fundamental research, we're not tied to a particular product. So it's in a sense closer to academic research. It's a very nice place. I mentioned I was particularly privileged and lucky to define this type of position. And at the same time, you could still work with more industrial approaches or with the engineer team, if you'd like. And you can still go to this more fundamental type. You have the resources and the time to develop to 18 DAILY CVPR Women in Computer Vision Saturday
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