Dr Styliani Petroudi (female) is the EIT Community Officer of the newly established EIT Community RIS Hub in Cyprus. Styliani also leads the Research Office, at CYENS Centre of Excellence (CoE), and is an Honorary Lecturer at University College London and an Impact Acceleration Manager at Crowdhelix. Styliani received her BScE and MScE in Electrical Engineering with a focus in signal and image processing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a Fulbright Scholarship. She continued her studies at the Wolfson Medical Vision Laboratory (MVL) at the University of Oxford, funded by a grant from Cancer Research – UK, under the supervision of Professor Sir Michael Brady in Information Engineering. Whilst at Oxford she was voted the treasurer of the Oxford University Greek Society. Following her DPhil, she remained at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral research associate, working closely with researchers from CR-UK and NCRI on oncological imaging and visualization related issues. Styliani’s research focuses on the analysis and interpretation of data (mainly 2D images, 3D volumes) using image processing (focusing on texture), statistical analysis, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Styliani has worked as a visiting academic at the University of Cyprus, the Open University Cyprus and the University of Girona. She was also the Coordinator of a Research Excellence Proposal funded by the Research Promotion Foundation for the development of personalised breast cancer detection systems. Dr Petroudi also holds an MBA from the University of Cyprus, and has worked as an officer at the Research and Innovation Foundation Cyprus. In her work at the Research Office at CYENS CoE, she is involved in the project management of all research and innovation projects as well as the RISE Teaming Project for the Centre. Styliani has over 50 publications in journals and scientific conferences. CYENS CoE has secured over 2 million of competitive funding in the past 3 years.