She was previously Professor of Affective and Behavioural Computing University of Twente[1] and Research Director[2] of the Samsung AI lab in Cambridge, UK.

[4] Pantić earned a PhD at the Delft University of Technology, entitled "Facial expression analysis by computational intelligence techniques", in 2001.

[7] In 2005 she joined Takeo Kanade's Face lab in Carnegie Mellon University as a visiting associate professor.

[1] She has more than 7300 citations to her work, and has served as the Key Note Speaker, chair and co-chair, and an organisation/program committee member at numerous conferences in areas of expertise.

[21] In 2012 Pantić was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 for contribution to automatic human behaviour understanding and affective computing.

[28] That year, she was chosen by the journal Nature to present "Machines That Can Read Human Emotions" at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

She has said that she imagines AI enhancing human abilities further - allowing for sight, hearing and even communicating to be aided by computers.