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Eleni Stroulia

University of Alberta
EducationPhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
Areas of ExpertiseSoftware Engineering; web services; Internet of things; smart buildings; smart cities; legacy systems reengineering; service science; virtual worlds; mobile apps; model-driven engineering, eHealth; cognitive and mental health

 

Eleni Stroulia is a Professor in the Department of Computing Science, at the University of Alberta. Since 2021, she is serving as the Acting Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science. Her research focuses on addressing industry-driven problems, adopting AI and machine-learning methods to improve or automate tasks. Her flagship project in the area of health care, the Smart Condo project, investigates how technology can support people with chronic conditions live independently longer, as well as educate health-science students to provide better care for these clients. In 2011, the Smart Condo team received the UofA Teaching Unit Award.

From 2011-2016, Eleni held the NSERC/AITF Industrial Research Chair on Service Systems Management, with IBM. She received a McCalla professorship in 2018 and in 2019 she was recognized with a Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring. 

From 2020 to 2023, she was the Director of the University of Alberta's AI4Society Signature Area, and since 2021 she is serving as the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science. She is currently leading a CFI-funded project that will transform the UCommons building into a smart living lab (external link) .