Bains interest in science started after she saw her first hologram and laser show (aged nine) at the Ontario Science Centre. After studying physics (and completing three holography projects) at university, her attention gradually turned to optics and optoelectronics applied to computing, neural networks, and signal processing, and eventually to machine vision and artificial intelligence generally (AI). When she finally decided to do a Ph.D., she was able to combine most of these interests.

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