Eleni Stroulia is a Greek and Canadian computer scientist whose research concerns

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

social computing Social computing is an area of computer science that is concerned with the intersection of social behavior and computational systems. It is based on creating or recreating social conventions and social contexts through the use of software and tech ...

smart building Building automation (BAS), also known as building management system (BMS) or building energy management system (BEMS), is the automatic centralized control of a building's HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), electrical, lighting, ...

s, the internet of things, and

software engineering Software engineering is a systematic engineering approach to software development. A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software. The term '' ...

for real-world applications. She is a professor of computing science at the

University of Alberta The University of Alberta, also known as U of A or UAlberta, is a Public university, public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexande ...

, where she has been a McCalla Professor and the holder of the NSERC/AITF Industrial Research Chair in Service Systems Management.

Education and career

Stroulia was born in Larissa, and graduated from the

University of Patras The University of Patras (UPatras; el, Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών, ''Panepistímio Patrón'') is a public university in Patras, Greece. It is the third-largest university in Greece with respect to the size of the student body, the s ...

in 1989. She completed her Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994. At the University of Alberta, she helped found Ada's Team, a support group for women and people from other disadvantaged groups among computing students. She held the NSERC/AITF Industrial Research Chair in Service Systems Management from 2010 to 2016. She was named one of nine McCalla Professors for 2018–2019.

Research

Her research has included work on algorithms recognizing depression from recordings of people's voices, and the use of

virtual reality Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs pose tracking and 3D near-eye displays to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), e ...

to assist older people with in-home exercise. She is also associated with the

Far-Play Far-Play (stylized fAR-Play, from augmented reality) is a software platform developed at the University of Alberta, for creating location-based, scavenger-hunt style games which use the GPS and web-connectivity features of a player's smartphone. ...

project for augmented reality research at the University of Alberta.

References

External links

Service Systems Research Group at the University of Alberta
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stroulia, Eleni Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian women computer scientists Canadian computer scientists Greek women computer scientists University of Patras alumni Georgia Tech alumni Academic staff of the University of Alberta People from Larissa