Dr. Alessandra Lumini is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Bologna. She received a degree in Computer Science from the University of Bologna, Italy, on March 26th, 1996. In 2001, she received her Ph.D. degree for her work on "Image Databases". She is a member of the Biometric Systems Lab and of the Smart City Lab. She is interested in Biometric Systems, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Image Databases, Multidimensional Data Structures, Digital Image Watermarking, and Bioinformatics.