Jozsef´ Mezei

1. BASIC INFORMATION PERSONAL Name Mezei, Jozsef´ INFORMATION Gender Male Born 18-01-1985, Cegled´ , Hungary Citizenship Hungarian Marital status Married

CONTACT Sat¨ arinrinne¨ 2 A 15 Cell: +358401842180 INFORMATION Espoo, Finland E-mail: jmezei@abo.fi

EDUCATION AND Abo˚ Akademi University, Turku, Finland DEGREES Department of Information Technologies Doctor of Science in Business Administration and Economics (major: Information Systems), December 2011 • Dissertation Title: “A quantitative view on fuzzy numbers” • Supervisor: Christer Carlsson and Robert Fuller´ • Final evaluation: Laudatur (with honors) (2011) Docent in Information Systems (Soft Computing and Decision Analytics) 01-07-2013 - present

Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland School of Business and Management Docent in Finance (Real option valuation and mathematical modeling in finance) 01-07-2013 - present

Eotv¨ os¨ Lorand´ University, Budapest, Hungary Department of Probability Theory and Statistics MSc in mathematics, July 2008 • Thesis Title: “Estimations of failure probabilities in insurance” • Supervisor: Miklos´ Arato´ • Final evaluation: With Distinction

CURRENTPOSITION Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, Abo˚ Akademi University, Turku, Finland Associate Professor in Information Systems August, 2018 - Position with mainly research related task with additional teaching (3 courses yearly) and supervi- sory (on Master level) tasks.

Avaintec Oy, Helsinki, Finland Senior Data Scientist April, 2017 - Developing and implementing machine learning models for data analytics in particular in the health care domain.

PREVIOUS F-Secure Corporation, Helsinki, Finland PROFESSIONAL Senior Data Scientist September, 2017 - April, 2018 APPOINTMENTS Developing and implementing machine learning models and tools in the domain of cyber-security. School of Business and Management, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland Research Fellow August, 2016 - August, 2017 The position consists of research related tasks (70%) and teaching tasks (30%).

Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, Abo˚ Akademi University, Turku, Finland Post-doctoral Researcher August, 2013 - August, 2016 Position with mainly research related task with additional teaching (3 courses yearly) and supervi- sory (on Master level) tasks.

RiskLab Finland, Department of Business Management and Analytics, Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland Researcher March, 2015 - August, 2016 A part-time researcher position with the focus on applying computational intelligence methods in systemic risk analytics.

Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research, Department of Information Technolo- gies, Abo˚ Akademi University, Turku, Finland Post-doctoral Researcher January, 2012 - July, 2013 Team member in different projects • DYSCOTEC: knowledge management technologies based on ontologies for smart phones with the involvement of major Finnish companies, January 2011 to June 2012 • Data 2 Intelligence: the aim of the program was to develop intelligent tools and methods for managing, refining and utilizing diverse data with more than 25 Finnish companies involved, July 2012- July 2013.

Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research, Department of Information Technolo- gies, Turku Centre for Computer Science, Abo˚ Akademi University, Turku, Finland Graduate Student September, 2008 - December, 2011 Includes Ph.D. research, Ph.D. and Masters level coursework and research/consulting projects. • Assesgrid: project focused on grid computing, based on statistics and optimization, September 2008 to December 2008 • Knowledge mobilisation: knowledge management technologies based on ontologies for smart phones with the involvement of major Finnish companies, January 2009 to December 2010

LINGUISTIC SKILLS Hungarian mother tongue English fluent

2. RESEARCHAND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES RESEARCH PROFILE My main research interests focus on quantitative methods in information systems using analytics and soft computing methods and the application of these methods to different fields (decision support systems, supply chain management, management science). During my doctoral studies and in the recent years since then I have become familiar with several different topics within information sys- tems, such as analytics, logistic optimization, mobile commerce, and published numerous papers in all of these topics. Additionally to mathematical modelling, I have been involved in several research projects with different methodological approaches, from case study to survey research. I have been involved in several industry-university collaboration projects with some of the largest companies in Finland mainly from the process industry which is the core part of the Finnish economy. RESEARCHGRANTS Marcus Wallenberg Foundation (2012): 3500 eas personal grant for the purpose of research on ANDPROJECTS decision analytics Willy Gielen scholarship (2013): personal grant of 3509 efor research advancing Finnish paper industry Participation with various national research projects (listed in the previous employment section) and international research collaborations with University of Trento, Italy, University of Granada, Spain, Obuda´ University, Hungary.

PUBLICATIONS Publications Statistics • 26 articles published in peer-reviewed journals • 42 articles in peer-reviewed conferences • 8 peer-reviewed book chapters • H-index in Scopus: 11 (in Google Scholar: 13) • Number of citations in Scopus: 464 (in Google Scholar: 895)

EXPERT Reviewer and second opponent for the doctoral dissertation of Jan Stoklasa, Lappeenranta Univer- ASSESSMENTS sity of Technology, 2014

Referee for international journals

Approximately 15-20 reviews per year in the following journals since 2009: • Abstract and Applied Analysis, Advances in Fuzzy Systems, Annals of Operations Research, Applied Soft Computing, Clinical Therapeutics, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Entropy, Experts Systems with Applications, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Group Decision and Negotiation, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Information Sciences, International Jour- nal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, International Journal of Computational Intelli- gence Systems, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, International Journal of Mathemat- ics in Operations Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, Journal of Ap- plied Operational Research, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Knowledge-Based Systems, Omega, Operational Research: An International Journal, Soft Computing, Swarm and Evolu- tionary Computation

ACTIVITIESINTHE Member of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (2016-) ACADEMIC Board member of the North-European Society for Adaptive and Intelligent Systems (2017-) COMMUNITY Member of the Finnish Economic Association (2015-)

Scientific program committee • International Conference on Applied Operational Research, 2010, Turku, Finland. • FORS40 - Finnish Operations Research 40th Anniversary Workshop, 2013, Lappeenranta, Finland. • NSAIS’16 Workshop on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems, 2016, Lappeenranta, Finland. • Minitrack co-chair on ”Machine learning and network analytics in finance” in 2017 and 2018, Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-50 and HICSS-51), Hawaii, USA. Participation in conferences

Conference presentations in the last 5 years (all of them presentations of accepted papers): • Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-51), Hawaii, USA, 2018 • North-European Society for Adaptive and Intelligent Systems Workshop, Lappeenranta, Fin- land, 2016 • International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge- Based Systems (IPMU 2016), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2016 • Annual Meeting of the Finnish Economic Association, Pori, 2016 • Annual Meeting of the Finnish Economic Association, Helsinki, 2015 • World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST 2013), Algavre, Portugal, 2013

3. TEACHINGAND SUPERVISION

MAJORTEACHING Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research, Department of Information Technolo- DUTIESAND gies, Abo˚ Akademi University, Turku, Finland PEDAGOGICAL COMPETENCE Lecturer and Instructor September, 2008 - August, 2016 Co-taught graduate level courses for different Master programs. Shared responsibility for lectures, exams, homework assignments, and grades.

Teaching Interests Business analytics, management science, quantitative methods in management, statistical methods in information systems research.

List of courses • Management Science and Inventory Analysis – Teaching assistant: 2009,2010, Lecturer: 2013, 2014, 2015 – Intermediate level, 25-35 students • Multi-criteria Decision Making – Teaching assistant: 2010-2013 – Advanced level, 10-12 students • Multi-criteria Decision Modeling in Problem Solving – Teaching assistant: 2010-11 – Advanced level, 10 students • Computational Intelligence and Management – Teaching assistant: 2012-14, Lecturer: 2015- (as Big Data Analytics and Management) – Advanced level, 15-20 students • Big Data Analytics and Management – Lecturer: 2015 – Advanced level, 30 students • Analytics and Soft Computing – Teaching assistant: 2011-13, Lecturer: 2014- – Advanced level, 15-20 students • IT & Management – Lecturer: 2013 – Intermediate level, 20 students • Decision & Business Analytics – Lecturer: 2014-2016 – Advanced level, 15 students • Free Analytics Environment R – Lecturer: 2017, 2018 – Intermediate level, 40 students • Marketing Analytics – Lecturer: 2018 – Advanced level, 30 students

Supervised students

Supervisor for doctoral students • Robin Wikstrom¨ (fuzzy ontologies for decision support) July, 2013 - May, 2014 (second su- pervisor)

Supervisor for graduate students • 16 supervised Master’s thesis completed since 2014 (as the main supervisor)