Anastasia Krithara

Dr Anastasia Krithara has been a post-doctoral researcher in the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications at NCSR "Demokritos" since 2008. She is a member of the Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory (SKEL), and the head of the Biomedical and Health Informatics Team (BioHIT). Before, she was a research engineer in Xerox Research Centre Europe, in Grenoble, France, where she carried out research in the area of machine learning.

She holds a BSc in Computer Science from Athens University of Economics and Business, an MSc in Machine Learning and Data Mining from University of Bristol and a PhD in Machine Learning from Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI). Her research interests include Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering with a focus on the biomedical domain.

She is program committee member of several international conferences and workshops and her work has been published in international journals, conferences and books. She is involved in many European and national research projects and she has the technical coordinator role in some of them. She has supervised more than 25 student theses and internships the last 10 years. She is teaching postgraduate courses and she is the co-organiser of the BioASQ challenges and workshops. She is the general secretary of the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (EETN) and member of the Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence of the National Bioethics and Technoethics Commission.