She received her B.S. in Mathematics from University of Bucharest, Romania in 1993, M.A. in Computer Science from Wayne State University, Michigan in 1999 and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Oakland University, Michigan in 2002. Her research interests include medical imaging, multimedia indexing and retrieval, pattern recognition, data mining and knowledge discovery. Daniela has published numerous papers in her research areas and is actively involved in organizing different conferences and workshops in Multimedia Retrieval. She is a member of ACM, IEEE and SPIE. She has also worked with industry including Young & Rubicam, Accenture Technology Labs and Ford Motor Company.