International HERMES Ph.D. Workshop 2023
International HERMES Ph.D. Workshop 2023: “Data Science in Business”
The Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business, successfully organized the International HERMES Ph.D. Workshop 2023: “Data Science in Business”, on June 7th and 8th, 2023, at the premises of the Athens University of Economics and Business.
The Workshop’s participants came from a multitude of European Universities, namely:
- www.linkedin.com/company/academia-de-studii-economice-din-bucure%C8%99ti/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/academia-de-studii-economice-din-bucure%C8%99ti/">Academia de Studii Economice din București (Romania)
- www.linkedin.com/company/aueb-stats/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/aueb-stats/">Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece)
- www.linkedin.com/school/international-hellenic-university/">https://www.linkedin.com/school/international-hellenic-university/">International Hellenic University (Greece)
- www.linkedin.com/company/uniinnsbruck/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/uniinnsbruck/">Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck (Austria)
- www.linkedin.com/school/maynooth-university/">https://www.linkedin.com/school/maynooth-university/">Maynooth University (Ireland)
- www.linkedin.com/company/tu-dresden/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/tu-dresden/">Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)
- www.linkedin.com/company/cafoscari/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/cafoscari/">Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Italy)
- www.linkedin.com/company/uahes/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/uahes/">Universidad de Alcalá (Spain)
- www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-pavia/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-pavia/">Università di Pavia (Italy)
- www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-economics-in-bratislava/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-economics-in-bratislava/">University of Economics in Bratislava (Slovakia) and
- www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-lausanne/">https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-lausanne/">University of Lausanne (Switzerland).
The Workshop comprised 12 Oral Presentations and 10 Poster Presentations, all followed by informal discussions and exchange of ideas between participants, making this event the perfect opportunity for insightful, multicultural research exchange and networking, among Ph.D. students of various different fields of expertise.
On the first day of the Workshop (June 7th, 2023), all participants gathered at the Amphitheater (Floor -1) of the New AUEB Building (https://goo.gl/maps/2CEjCZsf8HKAWvbL8?coh=178573&entry=tt" target="_blank">Troias 2 and Spetson), where they received a warm welcome from the Vice Rector of AUEB, Professor Vasilis Papadakis, the Head of the Department of Statistics, Professor Ioannis Ntzoufras, as well as the President of HERMES, Elke Kitzelmann (Associate Dean of Studies, International Economic & Business Studies, University of Innsbruck):
Angelos Alexopoulos (AUEB), then, officially initiated the event, by delivering their Keynote Speech, entitled: "A Machine Learning and Network approach to Value Added Tax Fraud Detection”:
The Keynote Speech was followed by a short break, which gave all attendees the opportunity to slowly get to know each other: