Giovanna Castellano is Associate Professor in Computer Science and Coordinator of the Computational Intelligence Lab (CILab) at the Computer Science Department of the University of Bari. From 1993 to 1995 she was Fellow researcher at the Institute for Signal and Image Processing (CNR) Bari, Italy. She got the Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2001 from University of Bari, Italy. From 2002 to 2015 she was Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Bari.

Her research interests are in the area of Computational Intelligence and include Fuzzy Image Processing and Computer Vision, Fuzzy systems, Fuzzy clustering, Image processing, Image retrieval, Neural Networks, Neuro-fuzzy modeling, Granular Computing, Recommender systems. She is the co-author of more than 250 papers in peer-reviewed books, conference proceedings and international journals covering the above topics.

Giovanna Castellano is the co-author of the Springer book "Fuzzy Logic for Image Processing: a Gentle Introduction using Java" published in 2017, and co-editor of the Springer book “Web Personalization in Intelligent Environments” published in 2009. She is Associate Editor of the following journals: Information Sciences (Elsevier), Evolving Systems (Springer), International Journal of Intelligent Systems (Wiley). She is member of the Editorial Board of the journals: International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications (InderScience), International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems (IOSPress), International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence and the Intelligent Decision Technology: An International Journal. She was guest editor of the special issue "Fuzzy Logic for Image Processing" in the journal Information (2017). She is guest editor of the special issue "Computational Intelligence in Healthcare" in the journal Electronics (2019-2020) and guest editor of the special issue "Granular Computing for Evolving Explainable models" in the journal Evolving Systems (2020-2021).

She acts as a reviewer for several international scientific journals published by high-rank publishers (Elsevier, IEEE, Springer) and for international conferences in the field of Computational Intelligence.