Lidia Jackowska-Strumiłło is a professor at the Lodz University of Technology (TUL), Poland, and vice director for didactics at the Institute of Applied Computer Science at TUL. She received her M.Sc., Ph.D., and DSc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from TUL in 1986, 1994, and 2010, respectively. Since 1986, she has been working as a researcher and lecturer at TUL. In 1990/91, she was with the Industrial Control Unit at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, where she worked on her PhD project in the field of electrical measurement and control techniques. Her research interests concentrate on computer engineering, modelling and monitoring of industrial objects and processes, industrial process tomography, computer image processing, engineering applications of artificial intelligence, and intelligent text processing. She is an author or co-author of more than 100 scientific publications and one patent. She has promoted four doctors in technical sciences. She was a principal and co-principal investigator in six research projects, academic coordinator of two EU Erasmus Mundus projects, and a PhD supervisor in the European TOMOCON project.