SIMONA MOLDOVANU received an MSc degree in informatics and a PhD degree from the Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania, in 2006 and 2012, respectively. She currently has an Associate Professor position with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati. She has authored or co-authored more than 150 scientific papers in national and international journals and international conferences. Her research interests are image segmentation, feature extraction and image characterization and classification using machine learning and deep learning. Her computer skills and competence include experience programming in MATLAB, Java and Python.