Manuela Veloso has spent her career turning sci-fi into reality
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Shutterstock Manuela Veloso grew up in Portugal in the 1960s and ’70s in a household where innovations, from the moon landing to the building of a huge bridge in Lisbon, were the subject of dinner-table discussion. In 1994, she moved to the U.S. to earn a master’s degree in computer science, and she went on to get her Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon.
So tell me more about ending up with a career in technology — specifically artificial intelligence — especially when there were few women role models in the field when you were growing up. Was there a moment during your career where you faced any pushback or weren’t encouraged to follow your goals? Women in technology are underrepresented — have you faced any specific challenges because of your background, especially as a woman from another country?
It’s also very important to have the support of the family themselves. My husband, my kids, my parents — the environment where you are outside of work makes a difference, because you have days in which you are happier, days in which you are less happy. And the environment at home needs to be understanding that the research career is a life of ups and downs. It’s not a very kind life. Things get rejected, things get accepted, you get work, you get rejections.
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