, Greece, in 1997, and her M.Sc. in Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, in 2000. She worked as a Software Engineer at LaserSight Technologies, Winter Park, Florida, until 2003. Anna has been a Computer Engineering Ph.D. Candidate at the School of EECS at UCF since 2004. She has been involved in several Machine Learning & Data Mining projects, such as mining of Law Enforcement Data (http://finder.ucf.edu). She has also mentored several undergraduate students for NSF-funded research projects. Her main research interests include Large-scale Data Mining, Parallel and Distributed Data Mining, Frequent Itemset Mining, Outlier Detection, Machine Learning, and