Maria Tzelepi is a postdoctoral researcher with the Information Technologies Institute (ITI) / Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH). Previously, she was working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Computational Intelligence and Deep Learning (CIDL) research group in the Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). She holds a BSc, an MSc and a PhD in Informatics from AUTH, since 2013, 2016, and 2021, respectively. Her PhD thesis, entitled “Deep Learning Techniques in Digital Media” under the supervision of Prof. Anastasios Tefas,  received the best 2020-2021 doctoral thesis award in the area of Artificial Intelligence by the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society. Her research interests include deep representation learning, image analysis and retrieval, computer vision, and time-series analysis and forecasting.