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.