Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou is Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus. Undergraduate studies at Brunel University, UK (B. Tech. in Computer Science, 1982). Graduate studies at Brunel University, UK (Ph.D. in Cybernetics, 1985). She has taught at University College London, UK (Lecturer, 1985-1991; Senior Lecturer, 1991-1992). She is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier) since the launching of the journal in 1989, and of the open access journal Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience (Hindawi Publishing Corporation –www.hindawi.com/journals/aai). During the period 2003-2005 she served as Chair of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME) Board. Her research interests include Knowledge Engineering, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Expert Systems, Deep Knowledge Models, Diagnostic Reasoning, Temporal Information Systems in Medicine, Temporal Reasoning and Temporal Data Abstraction, Hybrid Decision Support Systems. In addition to her publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings she has (co)authored seven scientific books published by Springer, Elsevier, Kluwer, Kogan-Page, Chapman and Hall, Abacus Press, and the Greek Open University. She has guest-edited or co-guest-edited ten special issues of the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, the latest (co-guest edited with T. Chen and G. Antoniou and published in 2021) being a thematic issue on Medical Analytics for Healthcare Intelligence: Recent advances and future directions.She has served as a Member of the Governing Board (June 2012 –June 2018) and of the Executive Committee (July 2014 –June 2018) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT-www.eit.europa.eu). She is a Fellow of the 2021 class of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics.
