myself in his position, if I'm working on a problem and if somebody else publishes a paper in that space, I get a little bit nervous about like, oh wait, like I was going to be doing this. Now they have this other thing and like, how are we going to compete and will we outperform them or not? I get a little bit competitive in that sense. It's a bummer. Yeah. And I think that is how most people react to a situation like that. But for him, it seemed like that was just not a thing. He was just genuinely glad that somebody else has pushed this field forward. And at first, when he said something like this, I thought, I don't know, like you can't genuinely feel that. Maybe he's saying it, but he doesn't really mean it. But over the years, I got to learn that this is his perspective that he just thinks it's good overall for the ecosystem for things to move forward. He wants to do well. He wants to win. He is competitive, but it's not in this sort of feeling of like, oh, this other person did this thing before us or things like that. And that, I thought, especially when he was a student for second year, I thought was a very mature way of looking at it, which I hadn't encountered before. Did you shed a little tear when leaving Meta? Yeah [laughs], I had spent a lot of time there. I was quite close to my teams and my peers and the rest of the organization. In GenAI, it was a new organization that had come together very quickly and you were pushing very aggressively on a lot of goals. There was just a lot happening and a lot of opportunities to connect with people and get to know them better. Yeah, I do miss them, both my peers and my teams. This is something that all our community knows, the AI group at Meta is very impressive and we are doing fantastic… they are doing fantastic things! Devi, where were you born? I was born in the U.S., but I grew up in India. At what age did you come back from India? I came back when I was 17, after high school. Women in Computer Vision 20 DAILY WACV Saturday
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