Konstantina Valogianni

Konstantina Valogianni is an Associate Professor of information systems at IE Business School, IE University. She also serves as the Director of the Doctorate in Business Administration at IE University. 

She received her PhD from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (2016). Her research focuses on using Machine Learning to enable sustainable societies. Her main line of research focuses on designing intelligent algorithms to facilitate a better electric mobility integration in current smart grids. Although sustainability is her main focus, Konstantina is broadly interested in designing Machine Learning algorithms in application domains where it can increase efficiency (e.g., finance, strategy, law) and generate business or social value.

Her work has appeared in journals, such as Information Systems Research, Production and Operations Management, Information & Management, Decision Support Systems, Energy Policy, as well as conferences such as the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). In 2024, she was named as one of the Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors by Poets & Quants.

Konstantina teaches technology and innovation management, machine learning, and AI courses at the Masters and Executive levels, whereas she also teaches PhD courses on information systems. She has designed, in collaboration with IE Publishing, a series of teaching materials on AI and Machine Learning. Her Machine Learning multimedia tutorial is a best seller at the Harvard Business Publishing platform.

Academic Experience

• Director of Doctorate in Business Administration, IE University, Spain, 2025 - present

• Associate Professor, IE University, Spain, 2023- present

• Assistant Professor, IE University, Spain, 2016- 2023

• Visiting Scholar, University of Minnesota, USA, 2014

• Instructor and Teaching Assistant, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, 2011-2016 

Academic Background

• PhD in Information Systems, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands (2011 - 2016)

• 5-year Degree (BEng. and MEng. equivalent) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2005 - 2011)

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Researcher at FP7 project “Cassandra” (No:288429), 2011 – 2014

• Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE S.A.), 2010 – 2011

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)

3- Good Health and Well-Being

11- Sustainable Cities and Communities

13- Climate Action