Vessela Krasteva is currently Head of the Department, Professor and PhD in Analysis and Processing of Biomedical Signals and Data at the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include biomedical engineering; gait analysis; signal processing; algorithms; machine Learning; defibrillation; cardiac arrhythmia; cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); heart rate variability; biometrics; cardiology; respiration; statistics; sensors; and deep neural networks.