Prof. Dra. M. Graça Ruano received her Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Wales, United Kingdom in 1992. She started her professional activity in 1982 at the University of Aveiro, joining in 1992 the Department of Electronics Engineering and Informatics of the University of Algarve, where she currently holds a tenure associate professor position. She is a member the FCT/Portugal funded research centre the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra since 2011. Since 1993 she maintains the scientific leadership of all research developed at Biomedical Signal Processing Group Laboratory at the University of Algarve, hosting Msc, PhD and Pos-Doc researchers. Her research interests are in biomedical signal processing, particularly stochastic signals modelling (both experimentally and computational-based algorithms), analysis (time-series and frequency-based analysis, and time-spatial analysis), and, development of computational intelligent methods for supporting personalized health care with special emphasis on disease stratification, diagnosis and disease progression prediction. Her research has been applied on cardiovascular diseases assessment and cancer treatment by hyperthermia; her present interests include also diabetes and elderly devoted IOT systems. Besides other biomedical data processing, it is worth mentioning that she has 27 years’ experience working with ultrasound instrumentation, from instrumental development to raw data processing passing through ultrasound phantoms’ development and testing. She published over 120 research publications in refereed national and international journals and conferences and 5 edited books and 11 book chapters. M. Graça Ruano has/is supervised(ing) 26 final year ‘licenciatura’ scientific projects, 30 MsC thesis (where 2 are under course) , 8 PhDs (where 2 are under development), 1 pos-doc. Among these, 15 were grant holders from different funding origins. She participated in 40 international (33) and national (7) projects, some (20) as project leader; At present she participates in LINK - Linking Excellence in Biomedical knowledge and Computational Intelligence Research for personalized management of CVD within PHC (692023 H2020), Nuevas Vías No-Invasivas De Diagnostico Temprano En Enfermedades Crónicas Y Degenerativas (CYTED 218RT0545), CENIE - Centro Internacional sobre o Envelhecimento, Interreg V-A Espanha-Portugal (POCTEP), FraiLoc: Diseño, desarrollo y validación de un sistema de ayuda a la valoración de la fragilidad en geriatría basado en la detección y análisis de la actividad física y pautas de comportamiento. Funded by Instituto de Salud Carlos III - Proyectos de Desarrollo Tecnológico en Salud (DTS), Ministerio Economia, Industria y Competitividad/Spain (DTS17/0080). She is reviewer of 13 scientific journals (mainly Elsevier, Springer, IEEE), having 10 yearly average of article revisions since 2013; she has been the general chair or co-chair of 20 conferences, belonged to 16 steering committees, and participated in the technical committees of over 100 conferences where she contributed with the revision of above 150 manuscripts. The conferences above mentioned are almost exclusively international. In terms of her Educational related activities, she has actively participated as author or co-author of more than 40 lecturing courses notes (theoretical and practical sets of problems) , over 10 ‘licenciatura’, master and PhD new proposal plans or course reformulations. Since 1992 she taught 22 (14 national and 8 international) different graduation courses till today, involving having lectured more than 40 lecturing courses.