The new Faculty member of the IMDEA Software Institute, Thaleia Dimitra Doudali, that has recently obtained her PhD at Georgia Institute of Technology, brings with her a new research area focused on the integration of machine learning, artificial intelligence and computer vision for building fast and more efficient software systems.

She started her research career with a purely systems background. Then, she pursued an internship at AMD Research, a hardware company interested in understanding how machine learning can help build better systems, and that was when her interest for this field started.

“Thinking about how we can use images inside software systems its a very new challenge and something I am really ready to take upon because I believe its going to change how we build systems.” Doudali feels that using computer vision to solve these problems is going to be a new trend that will last at least a decade.

Going from PhD to Faculty is something rare but she feels totally prepared thanks to her Phd advisor at Georgia University, Ada Gavrilovska. She knows she has made the right decision.

In addition, Thaleia is very committed to solving the gender gap in scientific careers and wants to become a rol model, just as the ones she had, her mother and advisor. She is also very concerned about people’s mental health and happiness as a driving force for life and wants to dedicate part of her time to listen, train, share and guide people.