Paula Viana is a Coordinator Professor at the Polytechnic of Porto, School of Engineering, and a Senior Researcher at INESC TEC, where she is the head of the Multimedia Communications Technologies area. She holds a PhD (2008) in Electrical and Computers Engineering from University of Porto with a thesis in the area of multimedia content management. She has been responsible for several courses in the area of Telecommunications, Computer Networks, Software, Digital Television, Image Processing, Multimedia Systems, Microprocessors and Digital Systems. She has supervised more than 150 MSc and Bac Thesis, 3 PhD and is currently involved in the supervision of 2 other PhD students. She has been coordinating the participation of INESC TEC and P.Porto in several National and European research projects, involving the academia and media industries. Results include, besides scientific publications and technical reports, several prototypes. She has also been deeply engaged in several activities of innovation and technology transfer to the industry and on the setup of a spin-off company. Author of several publications, she is also an active reviewer for indexed journals and conferences and engaged in program committees and on the organization of workshops. Among others, she co-chaired the Immersive Media Experiences workshop series (2013-2015) at ACM Multimedia and the In-vehicle sensing and monitorization workshop in the European Conference on Computer Vision 2022, both Core A* conferences. Since 2003 she is an expert of the European Commission for the evaluation of projects and project proposals. Since 2015 she also belongs to the pool of experts of the Portuguese National Innovation Agency. She was awarded several Prizes and Honors, namely: Best Student award in the Electrical and Computers Engineering in 1989; Specialist in Telecommunications from the Portuguese Society of Chartered Engineers since 2002, Senior Member from the same organization since 2015, several Best Paper, Best Innovation Project, Semi-Finalist at the European Innovation Radar Prize 2022, Best supervised Thesis and Grant awards. She is also an IEEE Senior Member. She belonged to several Boards/Committees, namely: IASTED TC in Telecommunications (2004-2007), IASTED TC on the Web, Internet and Multimedia (2004-2007), Management Board of the Telecommunications Specialization of the Portuguese Society of Chartered Engineers (2004-2007), TC on Soft Computing under the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (2019-2020). Her main research activities and interests are in the field of networked audiovisual systems, computer vision, machine learning, multimodal analytics, multimedia communications and personalization.