Petia Georgieva

Petia Georgieva is Associate Professor with habilitation in Computer Science (DSc) with the University of Aveiro, Portugal where she teaches Artificial Intelligence related courses (machine learning, deep learning, artificial neural networks modelling) at undergraduate, master and PhD levels. She is a researcher with the Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA). Previously she had research position with the University of Porto (2001-2003) and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, (1997-2001), research visiting positions with the University of Barcelona (Dep. de Matemàtiques i Informàtica), Rowan University (USA), Carnegie Mellon University (USA), University of Lancaster (UK). Her research interests include machine learning, deep learning and data mining with application focus on image processing, 5G+ networks, material science, brain computer interfaces. She has been involved in several projects funded by European grants, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology FCT, PT2020/PT2030, PRR funding institutions, MSCA DN, and the industry (Bosch, AlticeLab, Nokia, Infinera, etc.). She regularly acts as an Expert for European Research Programmes. She is a Member of the Board of Governors of International Neural Network Society (INNS) and an Associate Editor of Elsevier Pattern Recognition journal (Q1, IP=7.6) and Neural Networks journal (Q1, IP=6.3).