Amila Akagic received her Ph.D. degree from Keio University, Japan, in 2013, and her Master's and Bachelor's degrees from the University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, in 2006, 2009, respectively. She is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Informatics at the University of Sarajevo. Her primary area of interest is computer architecture, including reconfigurable architectures, high-performance computing, and heterogeneous computing. Her past research mainly focused on finding new ways to accelerate computation-intensive parts of an algorithm by means of offloading them to an FPGA. She has expanded her research to include artificial intelligence, computer vision, image segmentation, machine learning, deep learning, and digital signal processing.