Devi Parikh is a co-founder at Yutori. She was until last year an Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and a Senior Director for Generative AI at Meta. Devi, let's start with the most difficult question. You knew that this question would arrive. How can you abandon a fantastic tenure at Georgia Tech and a brilliant position at Meta to enter into this new adventure. Yeah, yeah. I'm happy to share that. I also talk about it a little bit at my ICLR 2024 keynote. If anyone's interested in a fuller response, they can also check that out. I think it's a few things. One is that I value new experiences. I was having a great time at Georgia Tech. I was having a great time at Meta. I was in the GenAI organization where a lot of exciting work was happening at a fast pace. It was high priority work. The leadership was fully invested. There were resources, awesome people. All of that was great. But I was starting to miss driving things myself. I was in a role where I had multiple teams reporting to me. They had their amazing team leads. It didn't seem like they needed much from me on a day-to-day basis. I was more making sure the right people were talking to each other. It was more reacting to whatever was coming my way and Read 160 FASCINATING interviews with Women in Computer Vision Women in Computer Vision 16 DAILY WACV Saturday
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