Alicia Fernández is a Full Professor of Signal Processing at the Electrical Engineering Department (Instituto de Ingeniería Eléctrica (IIE)), Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República. Since 1989, she works at the IIE, in telecommunication and signal processing areas. Her main research interests are signal processing and pattern recognition with focus in biomedical image analysis, biometric identification, anomaly detection and big data analysis.