Ivona Brajević is an Associate Professor with the Department of Applied Information Technology, Faculty of Applied Management, Economics and Finance, University Business Academy in Novi Sad. She received a B.S. degree in Mathematics in 2006, an M.S. degree in Mathematics in 2008 from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics, Serbia and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2015 from the Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Serbia. Her research interests include nonlinear optimization, nature-inspired metaheuristics, artificial neural networks and image processing.