VirginiaLaura Ballarin is Full Professor in Signal Processing area at the Electronics Engineering Department of the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina and Director of the Image Processing Research Group at Research Institute of Science and Technology in Electronics (ICYTE) CONICET-UNMDP. (Research category 1 SPU). She has directed more than 20 PhD thesis and 25 undergraduate thesis, all biomedical image processing. She is author of more than 75 papers in refereed journals and more than 130 conference presentations all in image processing area. She was President of the Argentinean Bioengineering Society from 2013 to 2015. Currently Director of the Postgraduate Programme in Bioengineering. Since 2017, she is President of the Argentinian Chapter of EMBS – IEEE and member of the Council of the Institute of Science and Technology in Electronics. (ICYTE). Founding member of the Argentinean WIE Affinity Group in 2011 and WIE Secretary from 2013 to 2016. As President of SABI, chairing the CLAIB 2014 Organizing Committee hold in Paraná, Argentina and President of the Scientific Committee of SABI 2017 hold in Cordoba, Argentina. She is member of the ARCUSUR Accreditation System and has been reviewer for Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia y Colombia since 2008 to date.