Cecilia Di Ruberto received the laurea summa cum laude in Computer Science from University of Salerno (Italy) in 1990 and the PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Naples in 1995. After a two-year postdoctoral scholarship from University of Cagliari (Italy) she joined the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the same University as Assistant Professor in 1997. Since 2006 she is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the same Department.

She teaches at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari (Italy), keeping the course “Algorithms and Data Structures”, Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, and the course “Image Processing”, Master Degree in Computer Science.

Her research interests include computer vision and artificial intelligence for biomedical applications, image retrieval, medical image analysis, pattern recognition, and machine and deep learning. She has been working in microscopic image analysis, particularly in blood smear image analysis for cell counting, malaria parasites detection and classification, and leukemia detection. She is author of more than 100 scientific papers in international journals and conferences. She presently serves as associate editor of several journals, including Image and Vision Computing (IMAVIS, Elsevier), and Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP, Springer).