Professor Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou University of Cyprus Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Professor of Computer Science

Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus (since 1996) and Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs. Previously she was the Dean of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences (1999-2002) and the first Chairperson of the Department of Computer Science (1994-1998) of the University of Cyprus. She received a B.Tech. (first class honors) in Computer Science from Brunel University, UK (1992) and a Ph.D. in Cybernetics from the same University (1985). For her Ph.D. studies she received an Overseas Research Studentship (ORS) Award and a scholarship from GEC/Marconi Research. She taught in the Department of Computer Science of University College London (Lecturer, 1985-1991, Senior Lecturer, 1991-1992, and Director of the MSc Program in Computer Science) and at the University of Cyprus (Associate Professor 1992-1996). She is Associate Editor of the scientific journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier) and a member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal Systems Research and Information Science (Gordon and Breach). She has carried out research in the areas of knowledge engineering, expert systems, deep knowledge models, diagnostic reasoning, temporal reasoning, artificial intelligence in medicine, and hybrid decision support systems. She has been Principal Investigator or Participant in a number of externally funded research projects (SDD (Leverhulme Trust), MSD (Leverhulme Trust), GAMES II (EU AIM Project A2034), EQUATOR (Esprit Project P2409), KBS Initiative Project (UFC, UK)), in the context of which she developed expert systems for various problems in medicine and engineering. At present she is the Scientist in Charge of research program NEOGNOS (RPF 39/2002), funded by the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus. She has co-authored (with Professor L. Johnson) three books (Expert Systems Technology: a guide, Abacus Press, 1985, Competent Expert Systems: a case study in fault diagnosis, Kogan-Page, 1986, and Expert Systems Architectures, Kogan-Page, 1988), she has edited a book volume on Deep Models for Medical Knowledge Engineering (Elsevier, 1992), and has co-edited (with Drs N. Lavrac and B. Zupan) a book volume on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997). Recently she authored a book on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for the Greek Open University, while at present she collaborates with C. Combi (Universita' degli Studi di Verona, Italy) and Y. Shahar (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) in the writing of a new book titled Temporal Information Systems in Medicine, to be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. She is the Chairperson of the Cyprus Council for the Recognition of Degrees (KY.S.A.T.S.), a member of the Council for the Educational Evaluation and Accreditation (S.EK.A.P), a member of the Council of the Cyprus Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.K).

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