Curriculum Vitae

Mirjana Pejić Bach is a full professor at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Economics in Zagreb. She holds a PhD in system dynamics modelling from the Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb. She was trained at the MIT Sloan School of Management in system dynamics and OliviaGroup in data mining. Mirjana is the leader and collaborator of numerous projects in which she cooperates with Croatian companies and international organizations, mainly through European Union projects and the bilateral research framework. Her research areas are the strategic application of information technology in business, data science, simulation modelling, research methodology, qualitative and quantitative, especially multivariate statistics and modelling structural equations. Mirjana is the editor of several scientific journals indexed in Scopus and WoS and has organized several conferences and given plenary lectures at congresses, such as IEEE Systems. She has won several international awards for her scientific work, such as the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. According to the Scopus scientific database, Mirjana Pejić Bach is among the 2% of the most cited scientists in the world in 2020, 2021 and 2022. She received the largest number of citations from the field of Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing. The main goal of her work is to support aspiring researchers through mentoring doctoral theses and developing their scientific careers.

Education

• PhD in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb (2002)

• Guided Study Program in System Dynamics, Sloan School of Management, MIT (1999)

• Master of Science in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb (1997)

• MBA, School of Management, University of Zagreb (1996)

• Master in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb (1993); Major 1: Economic Cybernetics; Major 2: Finance, banking and insurance

• iMotions Academy (2022). Copennhagen, Denmark

• Stanford Universtity (2016). Statistical Learning. Certificate of accomplishment (PDF)

• University of Waikito (2015). Data Mining with Weka. Certificate of accomplishment (PDF)

• Predictive Modeling Course (2006), By C. Olivia Parr-Rud, Author, Data Mining Cookbook

Awards & Recognitions

Citations

• According to the Scopus scientific database analysis, Mirjana Pejić Bach is among the 2% of the most cited scientists in the world in 2020 and 2021. The largest number of citations was made in Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing.

Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb 

• Recognition Ljubomir Martić for exceptionally high-quality scientific work for the paper: Ilko Vrankić, Tomislav Herceg i Mirjana Pejić Bach (2021). Dynamics and stability of evolutionary optimal strategies in duopoly. Central European Journal of Operations Research, 29 (3), 1001-1019

• Award for the most cited paper in WoS CC at Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb for the paper Supporting performance management with business process management and business intelligence: A case analysis of integration and orchestration (ak.god. 2018/2019)

• Recognition for exceptional results in teaching in the academic year 2015/2016. 

• 'Mijo Mirkovic' award for the scientific paper: Exploring Information and Communications Technology Adoption in Enterprises and its Impact on Innovation Performance of European Countries, Ekonomický časopis Vol. 4; pp. 335-362 (2014)

• Mijo Mirkovic' award for the scientific paper: 'Surviving in an Environment of Financial Indiscipline', System Dynamics Review, Volume 19, Issue 1, 47-74. (2003)

• Award for the best graduate work - Faculty of Economics & Business - Zagreb, University of Zagreb (1993), Topic: 'One application of the Bayesian decision making method'

• Award for the best student - Faculty of Economics & Business - Zagreb, University of Zagreb (1992)

International awards and recognitions

• Emerald Literati Network, 2013 Highly Commended Paper Award za članak: T., Pejić Bach, M., Bosilj Vukšić, V. (2013). "Influence of strategic approach to BPM on financial and non-financial performance", Baltic Journal of Management, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp.376 - 396.

• One of the Noteworthy articles from leading authors in the Emerald Engineering eJournals collection for the paper Vasja Roblek, Mirjana Pejic Bach, Maja Meško, Andrej Bertoncelj, “The impact of social media to value added in knowledge-based industries”, 2013, Kybernetes, Vol. 42, No. 4, available at: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/collections/pdf/eng.pdf

Invited Lectures

• Invited lecture (2023). 'Operations Research meets Artificial Intelligence: Intersection or Union', The 17th International Symposium on Operations Research in Slovenia, Bled, Slovenia

• Invited lecture (2022). 'Targets of phishing attacks: the bigger fish to fry', 30 International Conference on Software, the Telecommunications and Computer Networks, SoftCom 2022, Split, Hrvatska.

• Invited lecture (2019). 'FinTech: European Union Perspective', IEEE SERVICES 2019 Conference's Future of Financial Services Symposia, 2019, 8-13.7.2019. Milano, Italija.

• Invited lecture  (2015).'Influence of Different Information Sources to Innovation Performance: Evidence from France, Netherlands and Croatia' na konferenciji2nd European Data Access Forum,  Luxembourg, Nizozemska.

• Invited lecture  (2013). 'Obstacles to Publication in ISI Journal for the Scientists from Transition Countries: How to Overcome them.' Dubrovnik International Economic Meeting DIEM 2013 Scientific Conference on Innovative Approaches to the Contemporary Economic Problems, Dubrovnik.

• Invited lecture  (2012). 'How to write and publish a paper in ISI journal: A closer look to Eastern European economics, business and management journals', Conference Knowledge and globalisation challenges, (2012), Celje, Slovenija.

• Invited lecture (2010). 'Profiling intelligent systems applications in fraud detection and prevention: survey of research articles' International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modelling and Simulation (2010), London, United Kingdom.

Publications

• Papers indexed in Web of Science journals: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/E-7313-2012 

• List of publications at Croatian Scientific Bibliography: http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=213892

• List of publications at scholar.google.com: http://scholar.google.hr/citations?user=r4WNZa0AAAAJ&hl=en

• Author of the book: Actualization of Female Potentials in Entrepreneurship, Science and Politics, published by Croatian Association of Businesswomen - KRUG  (2010)

Reviewing

• Reviewer of scientific programmes and projects for the Ministry of Science in the Greece and Croatia 

• Reviewer of book chapters in books (IGI Publishing): (i) Cases on Enterprise Information Systems and Implementation Stages: Learning from the Gulf Region; Information System Applications in the Arab Education Sector; (ii) Knowledge Management Innovations for Interdisciplinary Education: Organisational Applications, Strategy; (iii) Adoption and Competitive Advantage of Mobile Services in the Global Economy

• Editorial Advisory Board Member of book: "Organizational Knowledge Facilitation through Communities of Practice in Emerging Markets", IGI publising; Editorial Review Board  of book: Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches in Management and Organizational Strategy 

• Reviewer for the articles in international journals: Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - INDECS, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, International Journal of Informing Discipline, International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications, Information Systems Frontiers, Baltic Journal of Management, Problems in Post-Communism, Business Process Management Journal

• Reviewer for the articles at international conferences

Professional Activities

• Program committee member of 17th IADIS International Conference on Information Systems (IS 2024), 9-11, March, Porto, Portugal

• Program committee member of 2023 International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (CLNLP 2023), August 18-20, 2023 in Nanjing, China

• Program committe member of ICMTT´23 - The 2023 International Conference on Management, Tourism and Technologies, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, in Bogotá, Colombia, 2023

• Program Committee member of the IADIS Information Systems 2022 (IS 2022), Virtual Conference

• Scientific committe member of CENTERIS - International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems, Lisbon, Portugal , 2022

• Pogram committee member of CENTERIS - International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems, Braga, Portugal , 2021

• Program committee member of ProjMAN – International Conference on Project MANagement, Algarve, Portugal , 2020

• Program commitee member of IADIS International Conference on Information Systems 2019, Utecht, The Netherlands.

• Program committee member of  ICIST2020 (10th International Conference on Information Society and Technologies), Lecce, Italy 

• Program committee member of 1st International Conference on Cyber Security, Privacy and Networking (ICSPN 2020),  Jaipur, India

• Program committee member of 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems  - ICEIS - 5-7 May,  2019, Prague

• Member of technical program committee for the 8th International Conference on Modeling Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO) (ICMSAO'19), Bahrain, April 15-17, 2019, IEEE accredited

• Program committee member of ProjMAN – International Conference on Project MANagement, Sousse - Tunisia, 2019

• International Programme Committee  member of 9th International Conference on Information Society and Technology (ICIST 2019) , Kopaonik, Serbia

• Chair of the special session Opportunities and Risks for Data Science in Organizations: Banking, Finance, and Policy, The IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) , 2018, Turin, Italy

• Program committee member of 12th IADIS International Conference on Information Systems 2019 , HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands DSAA 2018 Special Session 

• Program committee member of ICDS 2019, The Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Society and eGovernments, Athens, Greece

• Program committee member of ICEIS 2019 - 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Heraklion, Krete Greece

• General Chair of ProjMAN – International Conference on Project MANagement, Lisbon, Portugal, 2018

• Scientific committee member of AUEIRC2017, Dubai, November 15-16, 2017

• Program committee member 8th International Conference on Information Society and Technology (ICIST 2018), Kopaonik, Serbia

• Program committee member ICEIS 2018 - “20th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems”, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 21-24, March

• Program committee member of 2nd “SmartBlueCity” Euro-Mediterranean Conference 28-29 September 2017, Heraklion-Crete.

• Program committee member of ProjMAN – International Conference on Project MANagement, Barcelona, Spain, 2017

• Program committee member of ProjMAN – International Conference on Project MANagement, North Region, Portugal, 2016

• Member of technical program committee for the The 4th International Conference on Software Engineering & Computer Systems 2015, Malasyia, 19 Aug - 21 Aug 2015

• Member of technical program committee for the First International Conference on Computing in Mechanical Engineering (ICCME’15), August 10-13, 2015, Kochi, India

• Program committee member of 12th International Conference on e-Commerce and Digital Marketing 2015 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 21 - 23 July 2015

• Program committee member of ProjMAN – International Conference on Project MANagement, Vilamoura, Portugal, 7-9, October 2015

• Program committee of CIMsim2014, the Sixth International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation, 

• Program committee of ICDS 2015, The Ninth International Conference on Digital Society, February 22 - 27, 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal

• Program committee of ISD2014 (23rd International Conference on Information Systems Development), Varaždin, September, 2013

• Program committee of the ProjMAN 2014 International Conference on Project MANagement an AIS affiliated conference, Troia, Portugal, October 15-17, 2014

• Technical Program committee member of the ICDS 2014 The Eighth International Conference on Digital Society, March 23 - 27, 2014 - Barcelona, Spain

• Program Committee of the IADIS Information Systems 2014 (IS 2014) Conference (IS 2014), 28 February – 2 March, Madrid, Spain

• Program Committee of the IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-COMMERCE 2013 (IS 2013), Prague, Czech Republic, 24 - 26 July 2013

• Program Committee of the IADIS Information Systems 2013 (IS 2013) Conference, March 13-15, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal

• Program Committee member of the IADIS International Conference e-Commerce 2012 (EC 2012), Lisbon, Portugal, 21 - 23 July 2012

• Technical program commitee for AMS 2011 - Asia Modelling Symposium - 24 - 26 May 2011, Manila, Philippines

• Technical program commitee for UKSim 2011- 13 th International Conference on Mathematical/Analytical Modelling

• Technical program commitee for CICSyN 2010 - 2nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks - Jul 28, 2010 - Jul 30, 2010 - Liverpool, United Kingdom

• Program Committee member for the IADIS e-Commerce 2011 conference

• Technical program commitee for CIMSiM 2010 - Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation - Sep 28, 2010 - Sep 30, 2010 Bali, Indonesia

• Technical program commitee for UKSIM2010 (UKSIM 12 th International Conference on Mathematical/Analytical Modelling)

• Technical program commitee for ISMS2010 (1st International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modelling and Simulation)

• Technical program committee for EMS2009 (European Modelling Symposium 2009)

• Program Committee member for the e-Commerce conference

• Program committee member of the IIS conference (Information and Intelligent Systems, Varaždin), 2006

• Member of the Scientific committee The 8th WSEAS Int. Conf. on AUTOMATION and INFORMATION (ICAI'07),Vancouver, Canada, June 19-21, 2007

• Member of the Scientific committee The 11th WSEAS International Conference on APPLIED MATHEMATICS, Dallas, Texas, USA, March 22-24, 2007

• Program committee member CONFENIS 2007, The IFIP International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems, An International Forum for Exploring the Research Frontier in Enterprise Information System, October 14-16, 2007 - Beijing, China

• Program committee member Informing Science and IT Education Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 22-25, 2007 

• Program Committee member IADIS International Conference, 7-9 December, 2007, Algarve, Portugal