Mathias Kraus Author & Editor

Freimut Bodendorf

Professor Freimut Bodendorf graduated from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (School of Engineering) with a degree in Computer Science. He obtained his doctor degree (Ph.D.) in Information Systems. Subsequently he was head of an IS department at the University Hospital and Medical School at the University of Freiburg/Germany, professor at the Postgraduate School of Engineering in Nuremberg/Germany, and head of the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Actually, he is head of the research group Management Intelligence Systems of the Institute of Information Systems at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is faculty member of the School Business and Economics as well as the School of Engineering and the School of Natural Sciences. Recently he was appointed to be Research Fellow of the Fraunhofer Institute IIS, the largest institute in Germany. His scientific work focuses on Business Intelligence and Digital Health including advanced data analytics, responsible artificial intelligence, intelligent assistance, data sharing and federated learning ecosystems. Research projects investigate and create solutions in the fields of digital transformation in healthcare and digital support of individual wellness.

Mathias Kraus

Mathias Kraus is Assistant Professor for Data Analytics at the Institute for Information Systems, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, where he also heads the White-Box AI research group. Prior to this appointment, he was a research assistant at ETH Zurich and the University of Freiburg. In his current role, he develops advances in data analytics with a focus on transparency and reliability in machine learning models. He has made several contributions to the scientific community through his work, which has been published in leading information systems and operations research journals and at prestigious computer science conferences.

Nilmini Wickramasinghe

As of August 1, Professor Wickramasinghe became the Professor and Optus Chair of Digital Health at La Trobe University. In addition, she is the inaugural Professor – Director Health Informatics Management at Epworth HealthCare. She also holds honorary research professor positions at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Murdoch research Children’s Institute (MCRI) and Northern Health. After completing 5 degrees at the University of Melbourne, she completed PhD studies at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA and later completed executive education at Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA in Value-based HealthCare. For over 25 years, Professor Wickramasinghe has been actively, researching and teaching within the health informatics/digital health domain in US, Germany and Australia with a particular focus on designing, developing and deploying suitable models, strategies and techniques grounded in various management principles to facilitate the implementation and adoption of technology solutions to effect superior, value-based patient centric care delivery. Professor Wickramasinghe collaborates with leading scholars at various premier healthcare organizations and universities throughout Australasia, US and Europe and is well published with more than 400 referred scholarly articles, more than 15 books, numerous book chapters, an encyclopaedia and a well established funded research track record securing over $25M in funding from grants in US, Australia, Germany and China as a chief investigator. She holds a patent around analytics solution for managing healthcare data and is the editor-in-chief of Intl. J Networking and virtual Organisations(www.inderscience.com/ijnvo) as well as the editor of the Springer book series Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age. In 2020, she was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt award for outstanding contribution to Digital Health, the first time this honour has been bestowed to someone in the discipline of Digital Health.