She received her MS deegree in Mathematics at the Universitat de Barcelona in 2003, and her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at the Computer Vision Center in 2009, at the Universitat Autonoma Barcelona. She was working as a visiting researcher in the Computer Science and Artificial Lab department at the Massachuetts Institute of Technology from 2012 until 2015. Her research interests are related to image understanding, scene and object recognition and affective computing.