Data Science and Productivity Analytics

Vincent Charles is an experienced researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Management Science, currently with the School of Management, University of Bradford. He has more than two decades of teaching, research, and consultancy experience, having been a full professor and director of research for more than a decade. He has published over 130 research outputs. He is a recipient of many international academic honours and awards.

Juan Aparicio is an Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics, Mathematics an Information Technology of the University Miguel Hernandez, Elche (Alicante), Spain. He is the director of the Center of Operations Research and is also Co-Chair (with Knox Lovell) of the Santander Chair on Efficiency and Productivity. He has published over 100 research contributions, mainly on Data Envelopment Analysis, Efficiency and Productivity Analysis.

Joe Zhu is Professor of Operations Analytics in the Foisie Business School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is an internationally recognized expert in methods of performance evaluation and benchmarking using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and his research interests are in the areas of operations and business analytics, productivity modeling, and performance evaluation and benchmarking. He has published and co-edited several books focusing on performance evaluation and benchmarking using DEA and developed the DEA Frontier software.