MICCAI 2016 Daily - Thursday

MICCAI Daily: How do you handle it? Aïcha: You keep pushing [ laughs again ] MICCAI Daily: Where do you find the drive to keep going? Aïcha: I had the chance to be surrounded by very clever people, both at Siemens and during my PhD. That really helped me out to get a sense of how research should be done. You set back, try to understand what’s wrong and redefine the things. MICCAI Daily: Did you meet only with short-term failures? Aïcha: No [laughs], I had long-term failures too! I thought the idea would work, but somehow it never reached the point of success. MICCAI Daily: Did you ever feel like giving up? Aïcha: During PhD, many times [ laughs ]. So often you feel down because whatever you come up with, you are stuck. It’s not working at all, but one day you get that idea, that illumination of your day, and you think why didn’t that come to you before… MICCAI Daily: Giving up was only a temptation or there was a real possibility you would? Aïcha: No, because I am kind of stubborn in that sense. I would feel too much of a failure if I did, at a personal level. Even if I think that it is not a failure to realize that something is not for you, in my case the power that drives me is the fact that I just can’t give up. MICCAI Daily: What if you discovered that this is not what you want? CVPR Daily: Thursday Women in Science 14 MICCAI Daily: Thursday