Eleni Stroulia is a Greek and Canadian computer scientist whose research concerns artificial intelligence, social computing, smart buildings, the internet of things, and software engineering for real-world applications. She is a professor of computing science at the University of Alberta, where she has been a McCalla Professor and the holder of the NSERC/AITF Industrial Research Chair in Service Systems Management.
Stroulia was born in Larissa, [1] and graduated from the University of Patras in 1989. She completed her Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994. [2] 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. [3] She held the NSERC/AITF Industrial Research Chair in Service Systems Management from 2010 to 2016. [1] She was named one of nine McCalla Professors for 2018–2019. [4]
Her research has included work on algorithms recognizing depression from recordings of people's voices, [5] and the use of virtual reality to assist older people with in-home exercise. [6] She is also associated with the Far-Play project for augmented reality research at the University of Alberta.
The Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, previously called Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology, commonly known as Sheridan College, is a diploma, certificate and degree-granting polytechnic institute in Ontario, with approximately 23,000 full-time students and 17,000 continuing education students. Founded in 1967, the college offers programs in animation and illustration, creative writing and publishing, music theatre, film and design, business, applied computing, engineering technology, community studies, and liberal studies. There are campuses in Oakville, Brampton, and Mississauga.
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Reihaneh (Rei) Safavi-Naini is the NSERC/Telus Industrial Research Chair and the Alberta Innovates Strategic Chair in Information Security at the University of Calgary, Canada. Before joining University of Calgary in 2007, she was a Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics and the Director of Telecommunication and Information Technology Research Institute (TITR) and Centre for Information Security at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She has served as the program co-chair of CRYPTO, ASIACRYPT, ASIACCS and Financial Cryptography and a program committee member of major conferences in cryptology and information security.
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