Loretta Ichim (Member, IEEE) was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1974. She received the B.Sc. degree (five-year) in automatic control and computers from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in automation, in 2006. After supporting the thesis, she received the Postdoctoral Fellowship. Since 1998, she has been working as a Senior Researcher at the Stefan S. Nicolau Institute of Virology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest. From 2006 to 2016, she was a Scientific Researcher at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest. Since 2016, she has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Automatic Control and Industrial Informatics, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest. Her main research interests include complex processing of images, medical information systems, pattern recognition in medical imaging and remote imaging, and management and monitoring of emergency situations. She has published more than 130 articles and eight books/chapter books (in whole or coauthor) and two patents.