Elena is presently leading the EluciDATA Lab by Sirris. Elena is in the unique position to have extensive R&D experience, both in an academic and an industrial environment. She holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from UGent and her academic career of almost 15 years includes diverse research assignments (e.g. assistant-professor, research scholar, postdoctoral fellow, …) at universities in Bulgaria, Belgium, Austria, Germany and the UK. Subsequently, she has worked for several years in an industrial context before starting at Sirris, which as an industrial research centre is the perfect marriage between academic and industrial research. Elena has played a key role as the main initiator and driving force behind the creation and establishment of The Data and AI Competence Lab, which she presently leads.
Elena has been active for more than 30 years in the fields of data analytics and AI in very diverse application domains e.g. speech processing, bioinformatics, knowledge engineering and multimedia. She has authored more than 100 scientific publications.
Publications
- Is traffic volume correlated to COVID-19 infections?
- Run-up in Brussels traffic towards the 2nd Covid-19 peak
- Small Ring of Brussels gradually back to normal since Covid-19 restrictions
- Unravelling volume patterns of Brussels traffic in times of Covid-19
- Insightful blueprints of Brussels traffic emerge in times of Covid-19
- What does it mean to have the sexiest job of the 21st century?
- ASTUTE project receives award at the Co-Summit 2015
- Big Data Beyond Web Data
- Tangible User Interfaces: Something for Your Product?
- Sirris Attended ISCRAM 2012