Dr. Marina Paolanti is a post-doc research fellow and contract professor at the Department of Information Engineering (DII) of Università Politecnica delle Marche. In December 2012, she received the M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering at Università Politecnica delle Marche. In March 2018, she obtained the European PhD in Information Engineering from Università Politecnica delle Marche with a thesis entitled "Pattern Recognition for Challenging Computer Vision Applications" (Advisor Prof. Primo Zingaretti, Co-Advisor Prof. Emanuele Frontoni). Her research focuses on Deep Learning, Machine Learning, image processing, and Computer Vision. During her PhD, she has worked at GfK Verein (Nuremberg, Germany) for Visual and Textual sentiment analysis of brand related social media pictures using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. She is a member of IEEE, CVPL and AI*IA.