Ivona Brandić is a Professor for High Performance Computing Systems at the University of Vienna. She shares lessons she learned from her Bosnian mom Manda about not being afraid to follow a career in tech & science, making life plans but not sticking to them, the value of hard work, focusing on good things in life, and how cooking skills translate to computer sciences. Ivona also shares lessons she learned through her experiences of being a teenage war refugee, starting a life in a new country, and being successful in a male-dominated field: always have the courage to try something new, and always trust your own skills and abilities.

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