• Question: how did you figure out your interests in science?

    Asked by Tree to Gary on 5 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Gary Munnelly

      Gary Munnelly answered on 5 Nov 2018:

      To be honest, I think I just got really, really lucky. I’ve always enjoyed working with computers, but the first time I sat down to actually study one and learn about how they worked was when I was in college. There was a moment where it just clicked and I knew I wanted to work in computer science professionally. I’ve been studying computer science for 10 years (I’ve been a scientist for 6 years) and I’m nowhere near bored yet.

      I am constantly amazed by all the things we can program a computer to do, whether it is my historical stuff, Sheila, Dimitar and Natalia’s translation research or Piyush’s work in machine learning. Computers are amazing machines and I’m very lucky that I got the chance to study them.

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