Alessandra Lumini received her Laurea Degree cum laude in Computer
Science from the University of Bologna, Italy, on March 26th 1996.
Since 1996 she carried out her research activity at the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI),
University of Bologna, Italy, where in 2001 she received her Ph.D.
degree for her work on "Image Databases". Since October 2002 she was an Associate Researcher and now is an Associate Professor of University
of Bologna (Academic discipline: ING-INF/05 Information Processing Systems).
She currently teaches Programming, Advanced Database Systems and Business Intelligence.
She carries out research at DISI in the fields of biometric
systems, pattern recognition, image databases and bioinformatics.
She extensively served as referee for international journals (IEEE
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE
Signal Processing Information Forensics and Security, IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Pattern Recognition
Letters). She is coauthor of more than 100 research papers. She has
been involved in several projects supported by MURST and European
Community. She is member of the Biometric Systems Lab at Computer
Science - Cesena. Her recent research interests are mainly directed
towards the areas of biometric systems and machine learning.