AI for Energy Finance (AI4EFin)

Stefan LESSMANN completed his PhD and habilitation at the University of Hamburg in 2007 and 2012, respectively. He then joined the Humboldt-University of Berlin in 2014, where he heads the Chair of Information Systems. He serves as an associate editor for DSS, IJF, and other international journals and department editor of BISE. Stefan has secured substantial amounts of research funding and published several papers in leading international (EJOR, DSS, TSE, etc.) and conferences (ICML, ICIS, ECOS, etc. His research concerns machine learning and artificial intelligence (MLAI) methodologies and their use cases in managerial decision support. Stefan specializes on MLAI applications in the broad scope of marketing and risk analytics. Stefan actively participates in knowledge transfer and consulting projects with industry partners; from start-up companies to global players and not-for-profit organizations.

Daniel Traian Pele graduated Mathematics at University of Bucharest (2000) and got his Ph.D. in Statistics (2007) at Bucharest University of Economic Studies. He currently serves as an Associate Professor at Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania, teaching Statistics of Financial Markets and Time Series. He is an author of more than 20 scientific publications in internationally refereed journals. The corresponding research profile is that of a data scientist, focused on statistical modelling of financial markets. He was a postdoctoral researcher at ICMA Centre, Reading University, United Kingdom (2011) and a Guest Researcher at Research Data Center from Department of Statistics, Humboldt University from Berlin (2014). He is the co-founder of SAS Centre of Excellence in Bucharest University of Economic Studies (2009), aiming to use SAS as a platform for analytics with applications in economy and finance. He was also a World Bank consultant in Romania and he taught courses of Statistics, Econometrics and SAS for the employees of the Romanian National Bank (BNR), National Statistical Institute (INS) and other financial institutions.

Roxana CLODNITCHI is a University Lecturer and Vice-Dan for Research and International Relations of the Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Languages, within the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. She holds a PhD in Business Administration and has more than 10 years of experience in International Project Management, Communication and Business Consulting with the European Commission and the German Chamber of Commerce in Romania. Within the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Dr. Clodnitchi was active for years as a guest lecturer in Decision Theory, Strategies and Entrepreneurship with focus on Energy Economics and also as a Business Relations Officer.