Myra Spiliopoulou

Myra Spiliopoulou is a Professor of Business Information Systems at the Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg since February 2003, leading the Knowledge Management and Data Mining (KMD) working group. Her research bridges theoretical data mining with practical healthcare and business applications.

Education:

• 1982-1986: Mathematics, University of Athens, Greece
• 1988-1994: PhD Student & Research Assistant, Department of Informatics, University of Athens
• 1992: PhD in Parallel Query Optimization, University of Athens
• 2000: Habilitation in Business Information Systems, Humboldt-University Berlin

Research Focus: Prof. Spiliopoulou specializes in temporal pattern mining, ethical AI, and healthcare data analytics, with notable contributions to epidemic surveillance systems. Her work integrates machine learning with domain-specific knowledge for real-world decision support.

She has delivered authoritative tutorials at premier conferences including KDD (2015, 2018, 2019), IEEE ICDM (2017), ECML/PKDD (2014, 2016), and AIME (2022, 2023), establishing her as a leading educator in data science methodologies.

Contact: myra@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de