During her time at SPPA as a Visiting Professor, Nina Rizun will be working on collaborative research with SPPA Professor and Canada Research Chair in Governance and Artificial Intelligence Adegboyega Ojo on AI safety issues as part of a broader effort to develop formal models of ethical and governance requirements of AI in selected public service contexts.
Biography
NINA RIZUN is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics in Management at the Faculty of Management and Economics of the Gdańsk University of Technology. Her main research interests cover computational analysis, Artificial Intelligence and NLP focusing on their application to provide robust policy analytics for service improvement, decision support and policy making. Within the last years, she has also focused on the field of investigating ICT-related governance domains, including Smart Governance, Smart Cities, and Open Data. She has an experience of took a part in the following national and international projects: “Determining the trustworthiness of public information on social media using linguistic-based text analytics approach“ (NAWA; principle investigator); “Building TRUST in social media: assessing the Trustworthiness of public Information on Ukrainian Migration to Europe” (The HumanE AI Network, Horizon 2020; principle investigator); Secondary Data Analysis Project “Generating actionable insights from the analysis of free-text comments from the National Care Experience Programme using Qualitative and Computational Text Analytics methods” (Health Research Board and the National Care Experience Programme; academic collaborator); “Structuring and classification of Internet contents with the prediction of its dynamics” (Polish National Centre for Research and Development; co-investigator) and “Strengthening Governance Capacity for Smart Sustainable Cities” (ERASMUS+ Capacity Building in Higher Education program; co-investigator). She has a strong ongoing publication record as a senior and second author in high-ranking international peer-reviewed journals (such as Decision Support Systems, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Computers in Industry, Telecommunication Policy); is an editorial board member of the Open Access eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM); a reviewer in several peer-reviewed journals; program committee member of many high-level international conferences. Her teaching focuses on Business Data Analytics, Data Science, Disruptive Technologies and Decision Analysis.