Kerstin Bunte received her Ph.D. in Computer Science in December 2011 from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her recent work has focused on Machine Learning techniques and their
usability in the field of image processing, supervised dimension reduction, dissimilarity learning, classification and visualization. Research visits have taken her to Rochester (USA) and Bielefeld (Germany). Since 2013 she is working in the Department of Information and Computer Science at Aalto University in Finland.