Marina Ivasic-Kos is a Professor and Head of the Laboratory for Pattern Recognition and Soft Computing at the University of Rijeka's Faculty of Informatics and Digital Technologies, as well as the Head of the Laboratory for Computer Vision and Virtual and Augmented Reality at the AIRI Centre. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb. Professor Ivasic-Kos has led several national projects, including HRZZ RAASS, which focused on automatic activity recognition. She has also participated in various EU research initiatives within the fields of computer vision, including the Horizon, ICT COST, Erasmus+, and EU-HKO projects. Currently, she is leading the AICODD project, which explores image-based AI-assisted diagnostics for canine ocular diseases. Additionally, she oversees work packages in the Horizon project INNO2MARE related to autonomous ship driving and serves as partner lead for the Horizon Digital4Security project. Her research expertise lies in artificial intelligence and computer vision, with publications in highly cited journals and presentations at numerous international scientific conferences. She actively contributes to the scientific community as a member of technical committees for several conferences and as a reviewer for prestigious journals, such as IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, and MPDI, in the fields of AI and computer vision.