Ioanna Valiandi received her B.Sc. degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Cyprus (UCY) in 2020 and her M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) in 2025. She is currently a PhD candidate at CUT, Limassol, Cyprus.

From 2020 to 2021, she worked as a Special Scientist at the UCY. Since 2022, she has been a Research Associate at the CYENS Centre of Excellence, in the VIDEOMICS group, which focuses on Adaptive Video Processing and Delivery for Real-Time Applications. Her research focuses on video coding and processing, adaptive video delivery for real-time applications and 360o video coding. She aims to further advance her research in AI-based coding techniques and neural video encoding. Her research interests encompass video codec comparison, adaptive video streaming, video quality assessment and user Quality of Experience, leveraging extensive medical and general-purpose databases, including 360o video.