Coloma Ballester is a Full Professor of Applied Mathematics and the coordinator of the Intelligent Multimodal Vision Analysis at DTIC-UPF. Her research revolves around the automatic analysis and understanding of visual content, sometimes involving modalities beyond vision, such as natural language and audio. She and her collaborators develop model-based and data-driven (deep learning) approaches, algorithms and innovative digital technologies to address real-world problems and applications, together with their theoretical analysis.