Prof. Dr. Amila Akagic is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Informatics at the University of Sarajevo. Her primary areas of interest are Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Image Processing, and Digital Signal Processing. 

Dr. Akagic earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Computer Science and Informatics from the University of Sarajevo in 2006 and 2009, respectively. During the 2007/2008 academic year, she was honored with a Fulbright Visiting Student Award, which led her to become a Junior Researcher at the Embedded Systems and Architectures Lab at the University of California, Riverside. Her quest for knowledge then took her to Tokyo, Japan, in 2010, where she was granted a MEXT scholarship. She successfully completed her Ph.D. at Keio University in 2013 in the Amano Lab.

Beyond her academic pursuits, she finds solace in the great outdoors, with a particular fondness for mountain hiking, skiing, and scuba diving. Her diverse range of hobbies encompasses pondering future trends, immersing herself in the realms of history, philosophy, and psychology through literature, creative writing, yoga, jazz ballet, and photography.