Prof. Petia Radeva is a Full professor at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Head of the Consolidated Research Group “Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Applications (AIBA)” at the University of Barcelona. Her main interests are in Machine/Deep learning and Computer Vision and their applications to health. Specific topics of interest: data-centric deep learning, uncertainty modeling, self-supervised learning, continual learning, learning with noisy labeling, multi-modal learning, NeRF, food recognition, food ontology, etc.
She was PI of UB in 12 European and international and 45+ national projects devoted to applying Computer Vision and Machine learning for real problems like food intake monitoring.
She is Editor in Chief of Pattern Recognition journal (Q1, IP=7.6).
She was a Research Manager of the State Agency of Research (Agencia Estatal de Investigación, AEI) of the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (2019-2024).
Petia Radeva was awarded the prestigous “Narcis Monturiol” medal in 2024. She was included in the Forbes Women list 2025 for one of the most influential women in Catalunya as well as belonging to the LAIA TIC Distinguished Women of Catalunya, Spain in 2025. She was declared in 2024 as The Research TIC Women of the Year by the Catalonian Government.IAPR Fellow since 2015, ICREA Academia’2015 and ICREA Academia’2022 assigned to the 30 best scientists in Catalonia for her scientific merits, received several international and national awards (“Aurora Pons Porrata” of CIARP, Prize “Antonio Caparrós” for the best technology transfer at UB, etc). Petia Radeva belongs to the top 2% of the World ranking of scientists with the major impact in the field of TIC according to the citations indicators of the popular ranking of Stanford. Also, she was selected in the first 6% of the ranking of Spanish and foreign most cited female researchers from any field according to the Ranking of CSIC: https://lnkd.in/djx2Yz5p.
She supervised 27 PhD students and published 130+ SCI journal publications and in total, 400+ international chapters and proceedings, her Google scholar h-index is 62 with 14500+ cites.
Currently, member of:
Institute of Mathematics of the University of Barcelona (IMUB)
Xarxa d’Innovació de Noves Tecnologies en Salut Mental (TECSAM)
Asociación Española de Reconocimiento de Formas y Análisis de Imágenes (AERFAI)