Basabi Chakraborty received B. Tech, M. Tech, and Ph.D. degrees in Radio Physics and Electronics from Calcutta University, India, and worked in the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India, until 1990. She received another Ph.D. in Information Science from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1996. Currently, she is a full professor in the Software and Information Science department of Iwate Prefectural University, Japan. Her main research interests are in the area of Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Soft Computing Techniques, Biometrics, Data Mining, and Online Social Media Mining. She is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of ACM, INNS, and the Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence.