Telecommunications Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from University of Florence, Italy. Elena is the leader of HumanTech Institute (Technology for Human well-being, humantech.eia-fr.ch/).
Her research expertise lies in Human Computer Interaction (natural interaction, smart spaces, machine learning, serious game and gamification) and Intelligent Data Analysis (multimedia content and knowledge management, semantic technologies, information visualization).
She teaches at graduate and undergraduate level a range of topics, including: project management, human -computer interaction and user experience design, web engineering, software engineering and information systems. Her work is published in journals, conference proceedings and as book chapters and has also been presented in numerous scientific conferences. She is an active reviewer for several international conferences and journals.