I am a Lecturer in Information Sciences at the School of Information Systems, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology.
Currently, I am the Deputy HDR Director for the School of Information Systems with a particular emphasis on external engagement. If you are interested in a PhD program at our school or if you would like to be a visiting researcher for a couple of months, please feel free to send me an email.
I am also a researcher at the Quantum Interactions group. We investigate extensions of current cognitive models and decision-making models, using the mathematical formalisms of quantum mechanics.
My background is Information Systems and Computer Engineering with a specialization in Enterprise Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence.
My PhD focused on Quantum Probabilitic Graphical Models for Cognition and Decision in which I developed a Quantum-Like Bayesian Network that can predict and accommodate several paradoxical human decisions that violate the laws of classical probability theory and logic.
I defended my PhD in December of 2017 with Pass with Honors and Distinction
In 2018, I received the Dean's award for Excelence in Teaching for my work at the School of Business, University of Leicester. The Dean’s Award recognises excellence in teaching and contribution to the enhancement of the student learning experience. It is awarded to staff on the basis of their contribution to engaging, motivating and inspiring students.
- Emphasis on external engagement
- Promote and coordinate recruitment of overseas candidates for the QUT Doctor of Philosophy degree program
- Engage in new partnerships and joint programs with other universities
- Develop and distribute marketing materials regarding the QUT PhD program of the School of Information Systems
- Coordinate visiting researchers
- Promote recruitment of visiting researcher from QUARTZ project
- Engage in research collaborations with visiting researchers and academics
- IAB303: Data Analytics for Information Insight (3rd year undergraduates)
- IFN619: Data Analytics for Business Professionals (master students)
- IFN600: Understanding Research
- Non-Classical Approaches for Decision-Making
- Quantum-Like Decision Support Systems and Applications (ex: Finance, Economics, Medical Decision-Making)
- Quantum Machine Learning
- High Dimensional Indexing / Retrieval Structures
- Deep Learning / Machine Learning models
- Assessment of PhD applications
- Selection of potential PhD candidates for scholarships
- Interview potential PhD candidates
- Bi-annual progress meetings with all PhD candidates of the Finance division
- Probation reviews with PhD candidates of the Finance division
- Participation on the PhD conference in 2018 (slides)
AWARD: Dean's award for Excelence in Teaching
- Financial Management (2nd year core module)
- Derivative Pricing I (3rd year optional module)
- Derivative Pricing II (3rd year optional module)
- Financial Markets Products: Futures and Forwards
- Research on the implications of quantum-like models in paradoxical human decision scenarios
- Investigation of the impacts of quantum-like models in decision scenarios with high levels of uncertainty
- Investigation of the impacts on the applicability of quantum-like models in real life financial decision scenarios
Excellence result in teaching
- Taught and prepared seminars
- Taught and prepared a full lecture
- Assisted in final examination
- Marked student's assessments
- Provided office hours
- Developed and gave student support in final project
AWARD: Excellence result in teaching award (evaluation: 9 out of 9)
Project funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - FCT:PTDC/EIA-CCO/119722/2010
Funding: €69 216
- Involved in the writing application of the project
- Study of the state of art indexing algorithms for high dimensional data
- Investigation of the impact of the Curse of Dimensionality in high dimensional data
- Development and improvement of the Linear Subspace Indexing algorithm
- Study of the impact of different distance norms in nearest neighbour search
- Supervision of two Master Thesis students
- Storage and management of large sets of data
- Research on supervised learning to rank algorithms
- Implementation of an expert search system to rank academic experts
- Academic hosts: Professor Emmanuel Haven and Dr. Sandro Sozzo
- Application of Quantum-Like models to business process mining and finance
- Collaboration with the Free University of Brussels in a study to test a quantum theoretic framework for decision-making
- Supervisor: Dr. Andreas Wichert
- Thesis: Quantum Probabilistic Graphical Models for Decision and Cognition
- Thesis Advisory Committee Report (intermediate PhD evaluation): 19 out of 20
- Major specialisation:Enterprise Information Systems
- Minor specialisation:Artificial Intelligence
- Thesis Supervisors: Dr. Bruno Martins and Dr. Pável Calado
- Master Thesis: Learning to Rank Academic Experts
- Thesis grade: 19 out of 20
- Award: (Best Dissertation in Information Systems Award)
- Thesis: Learning to Rank Academic Experts (download)
- Acquired strong knowledge in Mathematics, Algorithms and Programming Languages