Dr. Gavrilova is founder and co-director of two laboratories: the Biometric Technologies Laboratory and the SPARCS Laboratory. Her research is funded by CFI, NSERC, GEOIDE, iCORE, MITACS, and PIMS. Dr. Gavrilova publications includes over 200 journal and conference papers, edited special issues, books and book chapters. She has founded an international conference series with LNCS/IEEE, and co-chaired WADS, ISVD, CyberWorlds and CASA conferences. Prof. Gavrilova is an Editor-in-Chief of LNCS Transactions on Computational Science Journal, Springer-Verlag since 2007. She has delivered Keynotes and Invited Lectures at many international conferences, as well as given talks at DIMACS and Bell labs, Purdue University CERIAS, Microsoft Research, USA; and at Samsung Research, South Korea.