Dr. Kerstin Denecke is an expert in the field of medical informatics. She works as a professor and researcher at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. Her major research interests include artificial intelligence and (clinical) natural language processing in general and more specifically, information extraction, sentiment analysis and conversational agents. Her work concentrates on use cases in the healthcare domain. She completed a doctoral degree at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. She is leading several projects in the field of natural language processing and artificial intelligence and co-chairs the working group on participatory health informatics and social media or the International Medical Informatics Association.