Rebecka Weegar nailed today her PhD-thesis with the title Mining clinical text in cancer care.
Jury member of the PhD defence of Tim Huygh at University of Antwerp, Belgium
On December 5, 2019 I have been a jury member in the PhD defence of Tim Huygh at University of Antwerp, Belgium. His PhD thesis is entitled “Understanding IT Governance: Conceptualization and Enabling IT Business Value”. The abstract of this PhD thesis is included below together with a picture after this PhD defence with Tim Huygh, Steven De Haes (as Tim Huygh’s PhD supervisor) and the jury members.
Understanding IT Governance: Conceptualization and Enabling IT Business Value
Date: 5 December 2019
Venue: Master Aula André Leysen 001.B – Antwerp Management School, Boogkeers 5 – 2000 Antwerp
Time: 4:00 PM
PhD candidate: Tim Huygh
Principal investigator: Prof Steven De Haes
Short description: PhD defence Tim Huygh – Faculty of Business and Economics
Abstract
An increasing (operational and strategic) dependence on IT for organizations results in a growing need for effective IT governance. Effective IT governance effectuates appropriate control over an organization’s current and future IT use, as to enable the creation and protection of IT business value. However, the research domain of IT governance is somewhat hampered by a lack of theoretical underpinnings for IT governance, which makes it difficult to explain from a theoretical perspective how effective IT governance should be organized and why.
In response, this PhD thesis investigates the concept of IT governance through Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM). In that context, the research that was conducted serves multiple purposes. First, an organizing logic for IT governance is articulated that is grounded in the VSM and informed by extant IT governance research. Second, extending the discussion beyond the conceptual level, two in-depth case studies are presented that demonstrate how the VSM can be used as a lens for describing and diagnosing IT governance in practice. Third and finally, four empirical IT governance-related research studies are presented that are inspired by the VSM-based organizing logic for IT governance, which demonstrates that this logic can provide structure and theoretical underpinnings to IT governance-related empirical research.
For academics, this thesis contributes to the theoretical discourse on IT governance. It answers the question why IT governance can continue to fulfil its general purpose of creating and protecting IT business value. Furthermore, it provides strong theoretical underpinnings for how to organize effective IT governance. For practitioners, this thesis shows how the VSM can be used as a lens to describe and diagnose IT governance in practice. Furthermore, it provides insights on the IT governance mechanisms and practices that may be used to instantiate the required functions of an IT governance arrangement.
Link: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/management-information-systems/
2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018)
Hello everyone. I hope you are all fine and enjoying this beautiful winter. 🙂
Recently I have attended the EMNLP 2018 conference. It was held in Brussels, Belgium at the city center from 31 October to 04 November.
Just a few statistics about the conference,
EMNLP 2018 had 14 workshops, six tutorials, three invited speakers, 351 long paper presentations, 198 short paper presentations, 10 TACL paper presentations, and 29 demos. It received 2,231 valid submissions, a 48% increase over EMNLP 2017.
I attended the ”LOUHI 2018”, the Ninth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis and the BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and interpreting neural networks for NLP workshop. The ”LOUHI 2018”, the health text mining and information analysis workshop provided an excellent overview of the current trend in this area. The total number of attendee was close to a hundred. I have observed that most of the works there are based on deep neural networks, and they have particular importance on interpretability. The BlackboxNLP workshop was focused on this interpretability issue, and I have learned some recent trends there. I have written a short report about some papers of the the conference that can be sent on request.
Brussels is a magnificent city. During the lunchtime, I tried to visit as much as possible the city center. I tried the Belgian chocolate, french fries, and the famous waffle. They were mouth watering delicious.
Overall it was an excellent experience for me. I met a lot of new people who are working in the same direction as mine. I learned some new concepts. Most importantly, it gave me immense strength and assurance that, I am not alone in this journey. There are a lot of researchers in this area. I can always learn from them.
Mahbub Ul Alam, A new employee
Hello everyone! I hope you all are having a lovely time. 🙂
I am Mahbub Ul Alam. I’ve recently started as a PhD student here at DSV.
My research interest is in ‘Cognitive internet of things (IoT) based smart health-care systems using deep learning and advanced machine learning’.
Potential research problem areas include:
1. Machine learning framework for IoT.
2. Intelligent data, i.e., machine-understandable, resource-recognition, knowledge representation, big data, deep learning, and advanced machine learning.
3. Clinical decision support systems in health-IoT.
4. Patient-centric personalized health-care systems and applications.
5. Distributed intelligent data processing in IoT.
I have a master’s degree at the Institute of Natural Language Processing (IMS), University of Stuttgart, Germany. In my master’s thesis, I worked to understand the hidden layer mechanisms of deep neural networks in natural language processing (automatic speech recognition) domain.
I have a bit of work experience in software engineering at Samsung Research and Development Institute Bangladesh.
I believe in diversity, and love to explore new and fresh technological innovations. I like to think that every aspect of my previous experiences is helping me to move forward for my future career. I always keep in mind that, the central principle of my life is ‘Let all of us prosper together.’
The people are super nice and friendly here, and I am looking forward to working together with all of you at DSV.
Let all of us prosper together. 🙂
Mahbub
Mahbub Ul Alam
Parisa Aasi’s PhD defense
On June 4, 2018 our colleague Parisa Aasi, PhD student in IT Management and Governance group at DSV/Stockholm University has defended successfully her doctoral thesis entitled: “Information Technology Governance: The Role of Organizational Culture and Structure”. Her PhD thesis is available to be downloaded at the following link: http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1195170/FULLTEXT01.pdf
On behalf of research group in IT Management and Governance I would like to congratulate Parisa Aasi for this great achievement. Some pictures from this event are included below.
Georg Hodosi’s PhD defense
On June 12, 2017 our colleague Georg Hodosi, PhD student in IT Management group at DSV/Stockholm University has defended successfully his doctoral thesis entitled: “Information Technology Outsourcing in Large Companies in Sweden: A Perspective on Risks, Relationships and Success Factors”. His PhD thesis is available to be downloaded at the following link: http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1088520/FULLTEXT01.pdf
On behalf of research group in IT Management I would like to congratulate Georg Hodosi for this great achievement. A picture from this event is included below.
Mohamed El-Mekawy’s PhD defense
On June 3, 2016 our colleague Mohamed El-Mekawy, PhD student in IT Management group at DSV/Stockholm University has defended successfully his doctoral thesis entitled: “From Theory to Practice of Business-IT Alignment: Barriers, an Evaluation Framework and Relationships with Organisational Culture”. His PhD thesis is available to be downloaded at the following link: http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:920065/FULLTEXT01.pdf
On behalf of research group in IT Management I would like to congratulate Mohamed El-Mekawy for this great achievement. Some pictures from this event are included below.
Research visit of Professor Edimara Mezzomo Luciano from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
During June 1st to June 3rd, 2016 the IT Management group at DSV has been the host of the visit of Professor Edimara Mezzomo Luciano from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. The purpose of the visit has been to establish a research collaboration between the research group in IT Management at DSV and IT Management and Governance research group at the Business School at PUCRS.
Professor Edimara Mezzomo Luciano is leading the research group in IT Management and Governance at Business School at PUCRS that we noticed to have similar research interests with the research done by the IT Management group at DSV. For more information about Professor Edimara Mezzomo Luciano’s research please access the following links: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Edimara_Mezzomo_Luciano/ and http://lattes.cnpq.br/2607532326321244
On June 2nd, 2016 we had a seminar at DSV in which Professor Edimara Mezzomo Luciano has done a presentation concerning “Information Systems in Brazil and at PUCRS: current status and perspectives” . The seminar has also included discussions with the members of the research group in IT Management and a presentation of the recent research done in IT Management area at DSV.
The research visit has been a fruitful one and has opened different possibilities for establishing a research cooperation between DSV and Business School at PUCRS.