Inmaculada García received the B.Sc. degree in physics from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, in 1977, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in 1986. From 1977 to 1987, she was an Assistant Professor, Associate professor during 1987–1997, between 1997 and 2010, Full Professor at the University of Almeria and, since 2010, Full Professor at the University of Málaga. She was head of the Department of Computer Architecture and Electronics at the University of Almería for more than 12 years. During 1994–1995 she was a visiting researcher with the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Her research interest lies in the field of parallel algorithms for irregular problems related to image processing, global optimization, and matrix computation.