“It's important to find joy in what you do, and that joy varies throughout your career,” says Aouada. Photo: , SnT, 101 studio

“It's important to find joy in what you do, and that joy varies throughout your career,” says Aouada. Photo: , SnT, 101 studio

In Delano’s July supplement, we put the spotlight on four women making waves in the ICT sector. Djamila Aouada, head of the Computer Vision, Imaging and Machine Intelligence (CVI2) research group, explains that our worldview is shaped by the products women’s participation in tech is critical.

Coming from a family of engineering scholars (her parents and two brothers studied engineering), Djamila Aouada says this fact played a role in her studies, while her professor in signal processing in Algeria had an impact on her research skills. ]

Today, the PhD graduate in electrical engineering, computer vision, signal and image processing wears a triple hat as senior research scientist, assistant professor and head of the Computer Vision, Imaging and Machine Intelligence Research Group (CVI2) at the University of Luxembourg's Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT).

“It's important to find joy in what you do, and that joy varies throughout your career,” says Aouada.

CVI2 works in collaboration with several industrial partners on different projects and this multidisciplinary approach is what Aouada finds most intriguing.

“Working with multiple partners with multiple fields of application is challenging, but also rewarding… every project has something special to it for different reasons. Sometimes it’s the technical outcome. Sometimes it’s the human outcome.”

Key facts about Aouada and CV12

Specialisation: Artificial intelligence

First ICT job: Field engineer intern – Schlumberger

Role model: Anna Anatolievna Ismailova - mother

A prestigious award: Senior member of the IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Most recent training: Negotiation

Researchers in CVI2 group: 20

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