I am a Lecturer in Data Analytics at York Business School, York St John University. My research interests are in the domains of information systems, business intelligence, data science, and knowledge management for companies of different sizes.
I received a Ph.D. from University of Trento, and double Masters degree from University of Edinburgh and University of Trento (both with honors). I am a Visiting lecturer at IAE School of management, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France, and in my past I was a visiting researcher at Center for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation management, University of Twente; Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and the Netherlands Organisation for applied scientific research (TNO), Groningen.
I have an academic track record in business informatics and business intelligence, with publications in international conferences and journals in the broad areas of information systems, business and innovation.
I teach on Msc Marketing, Msc International Business and Master of Business Administration (MBA) courses. At present, I am Module Director at postgraduate level for the following modules:
- Data Analytics and the Blockchain
- Marketing and Data Analytics
- Capstone project (from June, 2024)
My main research interests include: Information Systems, Business Informatics, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, Digital Innovation, Business Processes, Business Process Management, Socio-technical Systems, Technology Management.
Research funding
Below I have listed the projects to which I have been awarded research grants
- £2300, Quality-Related (QR) Funding, Research England, for an external collaboration project with colleagues from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in which we review methods and use of explainable AI (XAI) in finance, 2024
- €1500, Virtual Mobility Grant, COST, European cooperation in science and technology group, research on how business intelligence reporting can be enhanced with linguistic summaries, 2023
- €1500, Virtual Mobility Grant, COST, European cooperation in science and technology group, research conducted on methodology for testing AI techniques in real-time for regulators and policy-makers, 2023
- €90000, HEI Initiative: Innovation Capacity Building for Higher Education, European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT), Coordination of the "Resource Hub" development, a shared platform for the collection of experiences and good practices towards Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) education, 2021-2022 (funding awarded each year)
- €5000, ECUI, European Universities initiative, ECUI staff mobility to support research in collaboration with the University of Twente, 2019
- €50000, EIT Digital, European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT), Dissemination activities for Online Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) education, 2016–2020 (funding awarded each year)
Student supervision
I served as a co-supervisor for Meriem Kherbouche's PhD at ELTE University, in collaboration with Bálint Molnár. Meriem's research focused on business process modeling and the transformation of business process models into programs. I have acted as an external examiner for Alessandro Bitetto's PhD dissertation at the University of Pavia. The dissertation focused on 'The Role of Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Risk Assessment: A Study on Economic and Epidemiological Impacts.'
Recent publications
Core member COST action, Fintech and Artificial intelligence in Finance (https://fin-ai.eu/)
Program committee member of the "International conference on Smart Business Technologies”
The main organizer of the “Women in Fintech” conference, taking place on September 22nd and 23rd, 2021, editor of Special issue for Digital Finance journal for the aim.
