Agata Manolova is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Telecommunications at the Technical University of Sofia (TUS), Sofia, Bulgaria, and the head of the research laboratory “Electronic Systems for Visual Information”. Her domains of interest are machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, image and video processing, biometrics, and augmented and virtual reality. She received her Ph.D. from the Universite de Grenoble, France. She is also a laureate of the Fulbright scholarship and an IEEE member.