22 DAILY ICCV had an opportunity to be a visiting scholar at MIT for a year. That was a great opportunity for me to come and do part of my research at MIT. So after I graduated in Iran, I came back to America as a postdoc. It was your first time in America. Right. I think I came here by the end of January 2017 and it was my first time here. How was the first impact with America and MIT when you came for one year? That was wonderful. I was fascinated by the research and the data and resources. And by the speed of research and collaboration with different labs. That was amazing! At the same time, I learned a lot about the technique of different data, since at that time I was working on the brain data. I was learning more not only about the analysis, but also for the process of data collection and everything in between. It was also a great opportunity for me to go to the conferences here, like the VSS, the Vision Science Society. And another conference in New York about computational neuroscience, which was more about the brain data and also gave me a chance to explore New York. You did not hesitate much after your PhD to come back to America. I really wanted to keep my research going. When I came back to Iran and I was about to graduate, I applied for the postdoc. Unfortunately, COVID happened. And that made me lose a couple of opportunities. Finally, I could manage to come back. Actually, I even came back during the pandemic. It was, I think, in November 2020. Because I applied for the visa before the pandemic and there was some rule that if you stay in some area for two weeks and then come to US, you're safe. So I went to Armenia for actually about a month. And then I moved here. After several years as a postdoc, you moved to industry. What happened? Wednesday Women in Computer Vision
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