Computer Vision News - December 2022

11 Chelsea Finn significant amount of sleep, didn't stop exercising, and didn't stop doing stuff just for a paper deadline. So that's something, but I don't think that is necessarily a huge sacrifice. The other thing is that doing a PhD is financially somewhat of a sacrifice. I think you can make more money doing other things. It ended up working out nicely for me in the end. I was kind of fortunate enough not to have loans after my undergraduate because I got really excellent financial aid during undergrad. I think those are a couple of sacrifices. I don't think there's a big one. Tell us one message that you would like to give the community. I think it's important towork onwhat you're excited about and what you think are the most important problems. And to help kind of move the field forward the most. Always keep on trying to grow and learn, which is true for everyone. There's so much that we don't know in the world of research! More than 100 inspiring interviews with successful Women in Computer Vision! me why it's exciting. Then during my PhD, I worked a lot with Pieter Abbeel and Sergey Levine. I worked very closely with Sergey when I was starting off because he was a postdoc, and I learned a ton from working with him.  Would you say that your path was a continuous one? I think it was a continuous process. There are certainly milestones. When I started my PhD, I had some papers that were very well received and some ideas that kind of worked out really well. Then also, of course, when I applied to faculty positions. But it's definitely kind of a journey; you don't ever arrive at any point. Do you ever think, well, I should have done something else instead of this? I'm very happy with where I'm at. I don't have any regrets. I mean, there are certainly things that I'm excited about and things I'm excited about that I'm not doing, and so there's always a balance of trying. You don't have the time to do everything. But overall, I'm very happy with where I'm at, and I don't think I would have done something different. Canyou tellmewhat is thebiggest sacrifice you have to do in order to get yourself to this point? [ thinks… ] I don't think that there's anything significant that comes to mind. There have been times inwhich I couldhave spentmore time with friends or family or something. At the beginning of my PhD, there were times, such as paper deadlines I would lose sleep and not exercise and kind of lose… my scheduling and everything because I wasn't very good at managing and figuring out how much work it is to submit a paper. I think that over time, I figured out how to manage things such that I didn't lose a