Bart Baesens

Prof. dr. Bart Baesens is a professor of Big Data and Analytics at KU Leuven (Belgium) and a lecturer at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom). He has done extensive research on Big Data & Analytics, Credit Risk Modeling, Fraud Detection and Marketing Analytics. He has written more than 200 scientific papers, some of which have been published in well-known international journals (e.g., MIS Quarterly, Machine Learning, Management Science, MIT Sloan Management Review and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering) and presented at top international conferences (e.g., ICIS, KDD, CAISE). He has received various best paper and best speaker awards. Bart is the author of 8 books: Credit Risk Management: Basic Concepts (Oxford University Press, 2009), Analytics in a Big Data World (Wiley, 2014), Beginning Java Programming (Wiley, 2015), Fraud Analytics using Descriptive, Predictive and Social Network Techniques (Wiley, 2015), Credit Risk Analytics (Wiley, 2016), Profit Driven Business Analytics (Wiley, 2017), Web Scraping for Data Science using Python (Apress, 2018) and Principles of Database Management (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He sold more than 20.000 copies of these books worldwide, some of which have been translated in Chinese, Russian, Kazakh and Korean. His research is summarized at www.dataminingapps.com. He also regularly tutors, advises and provides consulting support to international firms regarding their big data, analytics and credit risk management strategy. He also provides his own ON-LINE learning BlueCourses platform www.bluecourses.com offering courses on Machine Learning, Fraud Analytics, Customer Lifetime Value Modeling, Recommender Systems and Text Analytics. Next to his professional activities, Bart is obsessed by reading books and visiting sites related to World War I and II. He is espeically fascinated by Winston Churchill. He is also a true soccer fan and loves travelling, international food and wine tasting! Show Less