IE Business School Professor Konstantina Valogianni Named to Best 40 Under 40 by Poets & Quants

IE Business School’s Konstantina Valogianni has been named among the 2024 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors by Poets & Quants. Valogianni is Associate Professor of Information Systems and Technology and is currently teaching “Tech-bites for Creators: AI and Machine Learning” in the International MBA program and “Machine Learning Technologies” in the Executive MBA program. She was selected by Poets & Quants from more than 1,000 nominations, which were evaluated each nominee on teaching (70% weight) and research (30% weight).

Valogianni’s research has been published in journals such as Information Systems Research, Production and Operations Management, Information & Management, Decision Support Systems, and Energy Policy. She has received various grants to conduct research on designing machine learning algorithms by the EU (FP7 and Horizon 2020), as well as by the Fundación Ramon Areces and Fundacion CEPSA. She is participating as a machine learning expert in the IE Jean Monnet Center as well as a machine learning researcher.

Asked what she loves most about teaching business school students, Valogianni mentions, “Business students are amazing; they are not afraid to question current assumptions, push boundaries, and come up with new ideas! They will easily step out of their comfort zone making the class discussions unique. At IE especially, we have such a diverse student body, and this diversity in terms of cultural and educational backgrounds brings so many fresh ideas to the classroom.”

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