Kostas Nikolopoulos
Associate Dean Internationalisation, Durham University Business School
Editor-in-Chief Journal of the Operational Research Society
Professor in Business Information Systems & Analytics
Co-Director, IHRR / Professor in the Business School in the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience
Management Board Member in the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience
Dr Kostas Nikolopoulos
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kostas-nikolopoulos-886518201/
Professor in Business Information Systems & Analytics
Professional Summary
Dr. Nikolopoulos studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (ΕΜΠ) in his native Greece (D.Eng. 2002, Dipl. Eng. 1997). He further completed the International Teachers Programme (ITP) at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (2011). His research interests are Forecasting, Analytics, Information Systems, and Operations.
Dr. Nikolopoulos was Professor of Business Analytics/Decision Sciences at Bangor University for a full decade, and completed three tenures as the College Director of Research (Associate Dean for Research & Impact) for the College of Business, Law, Education, and Social Sciences (2011-2018) in charge of the REF2014 submission for the Business and the Law school. Before that, he was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Decision Sciences at the University of Manchester, a Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University and the CTO of the Forecasting and Strategy Unit (www.fsu.gr) in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the National Technical University of Athens (1996-2004). He has also held fixed-term teaching and academic appointments in the Indian School of Business, Korea University, Univerity of the Peloponnese, Hellenic International University, RWTH Aachen, Lille 2, and more recently in Kedge Business School.
Professor Nikolopoulos is an Associate Editor of Oxford IMA "Journal of Management Mathematics" and the "Supply Chain Forum, an International Journal" (Taylor & Francis); he is also the Section Editor-In-Chief for the "Forecasting in Economics and Management" section in the MDPI open access journal "Forecasting".
Professor Nikolopoulos is currently Co-Investigator in two major research grants for a) the GCRF; South Asia Self Harm research capability building initiative (SASHI) project funded by the Medical Research Council in UK (2017-2021), http://sashi.bangor.ac.uk/., and b) the H2020-FETPROACT; Radioactivity Monitoring in Ocean Ecosystems (RAMONES) funded by the EU (2021-2025). In the past he has succesfully bid as PI for more than £0.5M of research grants through the forecasting laboratory (forLAB) he founded and directed in Prifysgol Bangor University in Wales, UK.
Professor Nikolopoulos' work has been consistently appearing in the International Journal of Forecasting (29 outputs) but also in journals for broader audiences including the Journal of Operations Management, the European Journal of Operational Research, and the Journal of Computer Information Systems. His research outputs, citations, and respective research impact can be found at https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=7u7ENCsAAAAJ&hl=en
My forecasting work is strongly interrelating with Artificial (and Human ) intelligence, as it investigates how a) AI (versus HI) can help optimise forecasting models, and b) How AI can provide forecasts that human will adjust at a later stage.
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