Veronica Vilaplana holds an MSc degree in Mathematics and an MSc degree in Computer Sciences from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and a Ph.D. in Signal Theory and Communications from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Since 2002, she has been working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Signal Theory and Communications (UPC). Her current research interests focus on deep learning and other machine learning models for biomedical and remote sensing applications.