0207 - BAEF Educator Interview - Annunziata Esposito Amideo

Annunziata Esposito Amideo in conversation with Allen Higgins Nunzia is an Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems at University College Dublin, she is a member of the UK OR Society and its special interest group WORAN, and the current secretary of the EURO WISDOM Forum.·       To start, Analytics educators come from all kinds of professions, how did you find yourself working in this field?·       Can you share some lessons learned on becoming an analytics educator? (Three tips for a lecturer starting out?) ·       Can you tell us a bit about your own research interests?·       I know you record a lot of your lectures for students. Do pre-recorded lecturers change the classroom experience?·       What for you is the essence of practical analytics? (a process of optimization… The issue is that analytics and Operational Research (optimization is part of OR) are not really the same: ·       Can you talk about the challenges surrounding the academic/industry interface? (pure mathematics, applied mathematics > practical mathematics).·       What technologies are a must-have in your toolbox? Your ‘go to’ tools for analysing data? ·       To close out the interview... Do you have a favourite science or data podcast or video channel, or geeky secret?·       Other questions…Well, we’ll wrap up there.Thank you for sharing your ideas with us today.A video version of this episode is published on the Business Analytics Educators Forum’s YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrPQ1nwQVmvGUpKN0pey27gAcknowledgementsMusic Title: Guitar HouseArtist: josh pan (2020)Source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL-LId8ZWBMLicense: License CC BY 3.0Cover Art Title: Complex collaboration for BAEFArtist: Nuno Machado and Allen HigginsSource: vignette_version.pptxLicense: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Podcast LicenseDesign Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.