Vita

Education

2003
PhD, Information Science
University at Albany, State University of New York.

1996
Master in Business Administration
Universidad de Deusto (Spain) / Universidad del Salvador (Argentina).

1983
Ingeniero Electromecánico Orientación Electricista (6-year degree in Electrical Engineering)
Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina).

Languages
Spanish and English.

Work Experience

Currently

• Professor  of Data Science & Information Systems, School of Computer Science & Mathematics, Marist University.
• Director of Graduate Programs, School of Computer Science & Mathematics, Marist University.

2015-2021

• Professor of Information Technology and Systems, School of Computer Science & Mathematics, Marist  College.
• Director of Graduate Programs, School of Computer Science & Mathematics, Marist College.
• Project Manager and Co-Principal Investigator at the Center for Cloud Computing and Analytics, Marist College.

2008-2015

• Associate Professor of Information Technology and Systems, School of Computer Science & Mathematics, Marist  College.
• Director of Information Systems Graduate Programs, School of Computer Science & Mathematics, Marist College.

2003-2008

• Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Systems, School of Computer Science & Mathematics, Marist  College.

2002-2003

• Visiting Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Systems, School of Computer Science & Mathematics, Marist  College.

2002-2003

• Visiting Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Systems, School of Computer Science & Mathematics, Marist  College.

2001-2002

• Lecturer, Management Science and Information Systems Dept., School of Business, University at Albany , NY, USA.
• Visiting Lecturer, School of Business Administration, Universidad del Salvador, Argentina.

1998-2000

• Senior IT Advisor, President’s Office, Universidad del Salvador (USAL).
  • Job description and responsibilities: Coordinator of the IT Steering Committee. Definition of IT policies and strategies, including planning in such areas as organization and HR, technology and applications. Control and auditing of outsourcing services, vendors and internal HR, conducting negotiations, defining scope, requirements, terms, conditions and prices.
  • Responsible for the following IT resources and assets: Wide area network linking 12 buildings in the metropolitan area (Buenos Aires) and connecting the University Campus located in Pilar. Data Center with Unix (SUN), NT, Novell and Linux Servers; 400+ workstations (Windows NT,  Java Stations). Connectivity and interoperability among different platforms through TCP/IP, including  e-mail, groupware services and Internet access.

1986-2000

• Managing Partner at GLD Consultores, an Argentine software and consulting company specialized in developing and implementing computer-based solutions for the corporate market. GLD is a Microsoft Solution Provider and Consulting Services Partner, and a local value added distributor for several American companies, including Applix (TM1), Quality America, and Financial Technologies.

  • Job description and responsibilities: Planning, organization and management of IT projects. Design and development of marketing strategies concerning IT products and services. HR administration, including selection, allocation, supervision and assessment. Customer development and support.

  • During this period, he led numerous IT projects and has provided consulting and training in different industry segments, including telecommunications, oil and chemical, utility, transport and logistics, technology, manufacturing, retail, government. Customer list includes Acindar, AGF Argentina Cia de Seguros, Aerolíneas Argentinas, Aguas Argentinas, Andersen Consulting (Accenture), Austral Líneas Aéreas, Arthur Andersen, Astra CAPSA  (REPSOL), BASF, Bristol Myers Squibb, Datanet (Video Cable Comunicación), Eastman Chemical Argentina, EG3, Esso SAPA, Exxon Chemical Argentina, Hewlett Packard, Massalin Particulares (Philip Morris), Meta 4, Microsoft Argentina, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Work, Pioneer Argentina, Reuters, Ryder Argentina, Ryder Brasil, TELECOM, Telefónica de Argentina.

• Faculty member and Chair, Information Systems Dept., School of Business, Universidad del Salvador.
  • In charge of the undergraduate and graduate IS programs. Developed relationships, contacts and cooperation agreements with local and foreign universities and  IT vendors. Active member of the group that launched the MBA program with concentration in MIS (MBA/MIS), joint project with the faculty at the School of Business, University at Albany, State University of New York.

1987-1999

• Public Sector
  • Senior IT Advisor, Cabinet´s Head Office, Ministry of Work, 1998-1999.
• World Bank
  • Project Manager, 1996/1997. Proyecto AR/97/003 - PNUD –SECLO - Ministry of Work.
  • Project Manager, 1991/1994. Proyecto AR/88/005 - WB-PNUD-PRONATASS, Ministry of Justice.
  • Senior Consultant, 1988/1989. Proyecto AR/86/R01 - WB-BIRF-PNUD. Technical Assistance Program:“Fortalecimiento de la Capacidad de Gestión del Sector Público. Sistemas de  Información para la Gestión de la  Ad­ministración Pública”. Secretary of Public Affairs.
  • Senior Consultant, 1987. Proyecto AR/86/R01 - WB-BIRF-PNUD.Technical Assistance Program: “Fortalecimiento de la Capacidad de Gestión del Sector Público”. DGI – Ministry of Economy.

1983-1986

• Apple Computer Inc., Argentina (Multivideo SA).
  • IS and Training Services Manager.  1985 - 1986
  • Software Engineer. 1983 - 1984

1979-1985, 1989-1990

• School of Engineering,  Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Adjunct Instructor, Database Management / Numerical Analysis 1989 – 1990
  • Adjunct Instructor, Computer Programming, 1983– 1985
  • Teaching Assistant, Computer Programming, 1979 – 1983

Academic Activities

• Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Service Sciences.
• Member of the Editorial Review Board of Intelligent Decision Technologies.
• Program Committee Organizer of the Enterprise Computing Conference, since 2008.
• Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU), since 2021.
• Program Committee Member of the Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference (LAK), since 2012.
• Program Committee Member of the International Resource Management Association Conference, 2005, 2006.
• Affiliate partner representative, New York State Center for Information Forensics and Assurance, 2004.
• Reviewer of the Journal of Organizational and End User Computing.
• Reviewer of the special issue on Information and Data Quality in the Journal “Studies in Communication Sciences”.
• Reviewer of the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research.
• Reviewer of the special issue of Annals of Operations Research on “Personnel Scheduling and Planning”.
• Reviewer of the European Journal of Operational Research.
• Reviewer of the Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence journal.
• Associate Editor and reviewer of the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality.
• Reviewer of the Journal of Learning Analytics.
• Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Data and Information Quality (DIQ), Riga, Latvia, 2004.
• Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, since 2002.
• Reviewer of papers submitted to the special volume on Information Quality in the Advances in Management Information Systems monograph series, sponsored by the Total Data Quality Mgmt Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003.
• Program Committee Member Reviewer of the International Conference on Computer Science and Operations Research, Buenos Aires, Argentina, JAIIO (2003, 2004, 2005).
• NSF Grant Proposal reviewer on the subject of learning analytics.

Professional Affiliations

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Publications and Talks

• See research tab.

Courses Taught

Marist College

2002 - to date

• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intel
• Data Mining and Predictive Analytics
• Data & Information Management (DW & Big Data)
• Global Issues in Technology Management
• Decision Making Tools for the Technology Manager
• Decision Support Systems
• Business Intelligence
• Database Mgmt Systems
• Information System Concepts
• Systems Analysis Methods
• Data Mgmt Systems
• Data Mgmt Lab (Oracle 8i)

University at Albany, SUNY

2001 - 2002

• Information Decision Systems II (DW , OLAP & data mining)
• Database Mgmt Systems
• Data Mining and Predictive Analytics
• Software Development
• Data Communications & Networking

Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires

1986 - 1999

• Information Technology Mgmt
• Field Project
• Data Structures (Pascal / C)
• Data Networks
• Data Base Mgmt Systems
• Object Oriented Programming (C++)
• Systems Analysis & Design

Universided de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ingeniería

1978 - 1989

• Programming
• Data Base Mgmt Systems

Training Seminars

1983 - 2000

• Multiple seminars and courses delivered to relevant customers in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Mexico in such topics as database management systems, OLAP, data warehousing, business intelligence, client/server technology, component-based software development, Internet and ecommerce architectures and application development.

Service and Leadership roles

• Served as a close advisor and collaborator to the School Dean in matters related to graduate programs, faculty hiring, the data science and artificial intelligence curriculum portfolio, and numerous research initiatives funded through NSF and NYS in the last twenty years, including the creation of the Center for Collaborative & On-Demand Computing (CCODC), the Cloud Computing & Analytics Center (CCAC), and the Enterprise Computing Community/Conference (ECC).
• Served as member and Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee.
• Recently served as member and Vice-Chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee.
• Serve (and has served before) as Chair of the Dept’s Faculty Search Committee. Has been instrumental in hiring of several new faculty members in the last years.
• Most senior member of the faculty in the Dept of Computing Technology: has served as a member and chair of the peer review committees the provided tenure and promotion recommendations to the Dean and the VPAA’s office of all current tenured and tenure-track faculty in the Dept.
• Lead Data Scientist of the Learning Analytics Initiative at Marist College, working in close collaboration with the Office of Data Science & Analytics, a division of the IT Dept.
• Member of the CIO and VP of Information Technology Search Committee at Marist College.
• Member of the Academic Planning Committee during the COVID-19 crisis.
• Member of the Presidential Search Committee that selected Kevin Weinman as the fifth President of Marist College.
• Co-chair of the 2022- 2023 Strategic Planning Student Success Group, charged with exploring the development of more robust academic and co-curricular support services to enhance satisfaction and success for all student populations.

Prizes and Awards

• ECC 2023: First Place Award for research work on AutoKevin: a semi-autonomous AI knowledge discovery system for higher education.
• Marist College (Faculty Affairs Committee): 2023 Gregory J. Kilgariff Distinguished Service and Leadership AWard.
• ECC 2021: First Place Award for research work on applying anomaly detection techniques on early detection of academically at-risk students.
• CSEDU 2020:  Best Paper Award for research work on prediction of freshmen attrition.
• Marist College: 2015 Board of Trustees Distinguished Teaching Award.
• Marist College: Office of the Academic Vicepresident’s Award for outstanding scholarship achievement, 2005, 2006, 2007,2009, 2010.
• Profiled by IBM Academic Initiative in 2012 (Faculty Spotlight) for his use of cloud computing in education.
• Computeworld: The Open Academic Analytics Initiative (OAAI) at Marist College of which Dr. Lauria is the Analytics Lead and one of the principal researchers, was named a 2013 Computerworld Honors Laureate in the Emerging technology category, by a panel of 22 distinguished judges many of them Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader Honorees from diverse industries. Our project was selected from more than 700 nominations to become one of 269 Laureates from 29 countries.
• Campus Technology Magazine: The OAAI has also received the Campus Technology Magazine 2013 Innovator’s Award in the Teaching and Learning category. This is very competitive award: 9 Innovator award winners were selected out of 235 total entries.
• Marist College: 2007-2008 recipient of Faculty Recognition Award for Distinguished Scholarship.
• CESSI (Chamber of Information Technology Companies in Argentina): Sadosky Prize Winner for Best Research Work on Information Technology, 2007.
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