Dr. Letícia Rittner is an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. She is the co-founder and currently Director of the Medical Image Computing <span lang="EN-US">L</span>ab<span lang="EN-US">oratory</span> (<a href="http://miclab.fee.unicamp.br/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://miclab.fee.unicamp.br/&source=gmail&ust=1736359440637000&usg=AOvVaw3G1rq_Q1z2yGnDOcDLWzfT">http://miclab.fee.unicamp.br/</a><wbr />)<span lang="EN-US">, and </span>also part of the Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology <span lang="EN-US">(</span>BRAINN<span lang="EN-US">).</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span>Dr. Rittner holds <span lang="EN-US">a Master in Business and Administration </span>and MSc and PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Campinas<span lang="EN-US">.</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span>She held fellowships at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University <span lang="EN-US">(Canada)</span>, and at the School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania <span lang="EN-US">(USA)</span>. She was also a visiting Professor at Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy and a visiting Researcher at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Brazil. Her research field is Medical Image Processing and Analysis, developing techniques based on machine learning, such as segmentation and characterization of anatomical structures, to support large-scale studies. Since 2012, she runs programming workshops for children and adolescents and has an active role in promoting gender diversity in the STEM areas. She is a member of the Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering (SBEB), of the International Photonic Society (SPIE) and a senior member of IEEE, serving on the IEEE Biomedical Image and Signal Processing Technical Committee.

Roberto A. Lotufo received the B.S. degree from Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronautica, Brazil, in 1978, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Bristol, U.K., in 1990, in Electrical Engineering. He is a full professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, were he has worked for since 1981. He was a visiting professor at University of Pennsylvania - USA (1992), McGill University - Canada (1994), University of New Mexico - USA (1996) and Paris School of Mines - France (2000). His principal research interests are in the areas of Image Processing and Analysis, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. Prof. Lotufo has published over 150 refereed international journal and full conference papers. He was awarded the Innovation Personality in 2008 and the Zeferino Vaz Academic Recognition in 2011 from University of Campinas. He is one of the principal investigator of the Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology - BRAINN (FAPESP-CEPID). Publication lists: <ul> <li><a href="http://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=IQt4hvoAAAAJ">Google Citation</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-1496-2009">Research Id</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roberto_Lotufo/">Research Gate</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.unicamp.br/sipex/CurriculoPesquisador/curriculo.html?id=1036">Sipex</a> - Unicamp curriculum (in Portuguese)</li> <li><a href="http://lattes.cnpq.br/9224426261471914">Lattes Curriculum</a> - CNPq curriculum (in Portuguese)</li> </ul>