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Samuel Fosso Wamba

Samuel Fosso Wamba

Professor, Associate Dean for Research, Toulouse Business School, France.

Research Interests: Supply Chain Management, Electronic Commerce, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence for Business, Social Media, Business Analytics, Big Data, and Metaverse for Business.

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Dr. Samuel Fosso Wamba is a Full Professor in Information Systems and Data Science and the Associate Dean for Research at TBS Education, France. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at The University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He earned his Ph.D. in industrial engineering at the Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada. His current research focuses on business value, the adoption of inter-organizational systems, their use and impact, supply chain management, electronic commerce, blockchain, artificial intelligence for business, social media, business analytics, big data, and metaverse for business. He is considered as part of the most influential scholars in business and management.  His works have been cited about 30,015 times per Google Scholar, with an h-index of 79 and an i-10 index of 186, with 5 papers being cited over 1,000 times per Google Scholar. He has been recognized as one of the most influential scientists (e.g., Clarivate, Mendeley database). He won “best paper awards” for many journals, including The Academy of Management Journal, where he won the best paper published in 2017, and the Paper of the Year 2017 for the Electronic Markets.

Subodha Kumar

Subodha Kumar

Paul R. Anderson Distinguished Chair Professor, Temple University, USA.

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Fintech, Healthcare Analytics, Social Media Analytics, Web Analytics, Supply Chain Analytics, Cybersecurity, Software Management.

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Subodha Kumar is the Paul R. Anderson Distinguished Chair Professor of Statistics, Operations, and Data Science and the Founding Director of the Center for Business Analytics and Disruptive Technologies at Temple University’s Fox School of Business. He has a secondary appointment in Information Systems. He also serves as the Concentration Director for Ph.D. Program in Operations and Supply Chain Management. Prof. Kumar’s personal page can be accessed at: https://sites.temple.edu/subodha/.

Prof. Kumar is a board member of many organizations. China’s Ministry of Education has awarded him a Changjiang Scholars Chair Professorship. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Indian School of Business (ISB). He has served on the University of Washington and Texas A&M University faculty.

Subodha was awarded the INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) Distinguished Fellow Award in 2023. He was also elected to become a Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Fellow in 2019. To honor Subodha, the Management and Business Review has instituted “The Subodha Kumar and Geoffrey G. Parker Award for Research on Digital Transformation.” He has received numerous other research and teaching awards.

Subodha has published more than 240 papers in reputed journals and refereed conferences. He was ranked #1 worldwide for publishing in Information Systems Research. In addition, he has authored two books, book chapters, Harvard Business School cases, and Ivey Business School cases. He also holds a robotics patent. He has also received grants from national agencies such as the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Prof. Kumar is routinely cited in different media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NBC, CBS, Fox, Business Week, Marketplace, and the New York Post. He is the Deputy Editor of the Production and Operations Management Journal and the Founding Executive Editor of Management and Business Review (MBR). He also serves on other editorial boards. He was the conference chair for the POMS Annual Conference 2018 and Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Annual Conference 2018 and has co-chaired several other conferences.

Álvaro Rocha

Álvaro Rocha

Honorary Professor, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Research Interests: Maturity Models, Information Systems Quality, Online Service Quality, Requirements Engineering, Intelligent Information Systems, E-Government, E-Health, and Information Technology in Education.

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Álvaro Rocha holds the title of Honorary Professor, and holds a D.Sc. in Information Science, Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technologies, M.Sc. in Information Management, and BCs in Computer Science.

He is a Professor of Information Systems at the University of Lisbon - ISEG, researcher at the ADVANCE (the ISEG Centre for Advanced Research in Management), and a collaborator researcher at both LIACC (Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science) and CINTESIS (Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems). His main research interests are maturity models, information systems quality, online service quality, requirements engineering, intelligent information systems, e-Government, e-Health, and information technology in education.

He is also Vice-Chair of the IEEE Portugal Section Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Chapter, and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of two Scopus and SCIMago journals: JISEM - Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management; and RISTI - Revista Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de InAdditionally, he is the Scientific Manager of the Information Systems Engineering & Management book series (https://shorturl.at/oyBKV) at Springer-Verlag, the world's leading publisher of publications in Science, Technology and Health.Melhoria na página de docente.
Moreover, he has served as Vice-Chair of Experts for the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Program, and as an Expert at the COST - intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, at the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Program, at the Government of Italy’s Ministry of Universities and Research, at the Government of Latvia’s Ministry of Finance, at the Government of Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology,  at the Government of Polish's National Science Centre, and at the Government of Cyprus's Research and Innovation Foundation.

Angela Lee Siew Hoong

Angela Lee Siew Hoong

Professor, Sunway University, Malaysia.

Research Interests: Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining, Predictive Analytics, Technology Adoption, Organisational Knowledge Management.

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Professor Dr Angela Lee Siew Hoong is an Associate Dean (Employability) and Head of Department Computing and Information Systems at the School of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University, Malaysia. Prof Angela Lee has been developing data science curriculum more than 10 years and she is the key person to introduce Data Science degree at Sunway University. She was recently awarded the National Outstanding Educator Award and SAS Global Forum Distinguished Educator Award for Asia Pacific Category. She regularly speaks at data science conferences. Angela has developed many innovative ways to use analytics and data science tools from the most elementary level to advanced analytics. She teaches Social Media Analytics, Visual Analytics, Advanced Analytics and Business Intelligence and has authored many published international journals in the area of churn analytics, sentiment analysis and predictive analytics.

Tariq H. Malik

Tariq H. Malik

Professor, Liaoning University, China.

Research Interests: Strategic Management, International Business, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Organizational Development.

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Tariq H. Malik is a professor with a Ph.D. in management from the University of London, UK. He is the Director of the International Center for Organization and Innovation Studies (ICOIS) at the Business School of Liaoning University. His primary research focuses on innovation and technology policy in the fields of organization and management. He has written reviews for most management and innovation journals and has received the Best Reviewer Award at major management conferences. He also serves as an external reviewer for institutions in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, East Asia, and China. His work has been published in journals such as Research Policy, Technology Forecasting & Social Change, and International Business Review. He teaches courses on research methodology, management theory (including international comparisons), and is a foreign faculty member well-loved by Chinese students. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of London from 2011-2013, Purdue University in the USA from 2011-2012, and King's College London from 2012-2014. He is also an anonymous reviewer for journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Research Policy, International Business Review, and R&D Management.