Paola Casti graduated with honors in Medical Engineering in 2011 from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, with a thesis titled "Development and validation of a computer-aided detection system for the identification of bilateral asymmetry in mammographic images." In 2015, she received a Ph.D. in Telecommunications and Microelectronics Engineering with the mention of Excellent Quality Cum Laude. The title of her dissertation was "Development of an innovative system for early detection and characterization of breast cancer." During her engineering studies, she was a four-time winner of the annual student award of excellence (given to the top 1% of engineering students) from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. In 2009, she was awarded 1st place in a student competition for the mechanical analysis and computer-aided design of a patented prosthesis, with a project titled "Multi-configurable Wrist Joint Prosthesis." She collaborated with the National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanit�, ISS) in 2009 on a project for microtomographic evaluation of bone substitutes and the obtained results have been published in the Rapporti ISTISAN of the ISS. In 2012, she was selected as one of the young researcher participants of the IEEE EMBS International Summer School on Biomedical Imaging, held in �le de Berder, Brittany, France. She has coauthored several papers in international peer-reviewed journals, a number of papers in proceedings of international conferences, and technical reports. Her research interests are in signal and image analysis for medical applications, pattern recognition and classification, and computer-aided diagnosis. At present, she is working with the Department of Electronics Engineering of the University of Rome Tor Vergata with a research contract.