with highest distinction in mathematics and computer science from the University of Illinois in 1970.
[2] She then spent two years as director of intelligent systems at Machine Vision International in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
[3] Shapiro received the Pattern Recognition Society Best Paper Awards in 1989 and 1995.
[4] Shapiro's research interests include computer vision, medical image analysis, artificial intelligence, biomedical informatics, pattern recognition, and content-based image retrieval.
According to her research laboratory website, her recent research projects include Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Devices, Expression Recognition using Deep Neural Nets, and Digital Pathology: Accuracy, Viewing Behavior and Image Characterization.