Afshin Ashofteh (5213-E4D6-CC60)

Curriculum Vitae

Afshin Ashofteh

- Afshin Ashofteh holds five university degrees, including a Ph.D. in Information Management specializing in Statistics and Econometrics, an MBA in Finance, a Post-graduate degree in Statistical Systems specializing in Central Banks, a Master's degree in Mathematical Statistics, and a Bachelor's degree in Statistics and Econometrics. - For professional certifications, he is certified by TÜV NORD Germany for both Risk Management and Internal Audit of the Information Security Management Systems (ISMS). During his professional life, he passed careers with certification for CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate), Network Plus, Security Plus, Active Directory, Linux Shell Programming, ITIL v3, COBIT Framework, and SQL Server. - He has been a full-time university professor and consultant for over two decades and is an integrated researcher at the Information Management Research and Development Center (MagIC). He serves some national and international institutions as a technical advisor/consultant, such as IMF, WHO, UN DESA, Central Banks, Banking Research Institute, and Statistics Portugal (INE). - His scientific interests have focused on Data Science in Finance and implementing Big Data and predictive models in Risk, Quant, Banking, Financial Economics, and Official Statistics. He published in top-tier journals, such as a new machine learning approach with Big Data at a top 10% Artificial Intelligence journal and a new Layered Learning Time Series forecasting model (called DELMS) in a top 10% Computer Science journal. - For conferences till 2023, he was Invited Speaker at seven conferences and Keynote Speaker at two others (six in Europe, one in Africa, one in South America, and one in Asia). - Recently, he was awarded (1) the Scholastic Achievement Award in 2015 (Central Bank of Portugal), (2) the Best Research Award in 2019 (International Statistical Institute), (3) and the Best Teaching Award in 2023 (Nova University Lisbon, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and the University of Rome Tor Vergata).

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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo: Afshin Ashofteh

Nomes de citação

Ashofteh, Afshin

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID: 5213-E4D6-CC60
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5075-9822
Researcher Id: AAI-3996-2021
Scopus Author Id: 57217177194

Endereços de correio eletrónico

aashofteh@novaims.unl.pt (Profissional)

Moradas

NOVA Information Management School - Universidade Nova de Lisboa Campolide Campus, 1070-312, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Profissional)

Websites

https://www.novaims.unl.pt/pt/a-nova-ims/docentes/d/300 (Académico)
https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/persons/afshin-ashofteh/ (Académico)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oIa1W0gAAAAJ&hl=en (Académico)
https://www.kaggle.com/aashofteh (Profissional)
https://github.com/AfshinAshofteh/creditscore_pyspark.git. (Profissional)
https://www.youtube.com/@datascienceforbusinessfinance (Rede social)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/datsci/ (Rede social)
https://youtu.be/7xabpWH4aFs?si=oSo0vjRYmR-oA2bW (Pessoal)

Domínios de atuação

Ciências Exatas - Ciências da Computação e da Informação
Ciências Exatas - Matemática - Estatística e Probabilidades
Ciências Sociais - Economia e Gestão - Econometria

Idiomas

Idioma	Conversação	Leitura	Escrita	Compreensão	Peer-review
Inglês	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)
Português	Utilizador elementar (A2)	Utilizador elementar (A2)	Utilizador elementar (A2)	Utilizador elementar (A2)	Utilizador elementar (A2)

Formação

	Grau	Classificação
2020 Concluído	Gestão da Informação (Doutoramento) Especialização em Área de especialidade: Estatística e Econometria Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Information Management School, Portugal "Data Science for Finance: Targeted Learning from (Big) Data to Economic Stability and Financial Risk Management" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
2014 - 2016 Concluído	Sistemas Estatísticos (Especialização pós-licenciatura) Especialização em with specialization in Central Bank Statistics Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal	The best student prize and plaque from Central Banks of Portugal
2007 - 2008 Concluído	MBA in Finance (Postgraduate Certificate) Especialização em Banking and Finance Banking Education Center of CBI, Malásia
1998 - 2000 Concluído	Pure Mathematical Statistics (Master) Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Irão
1995 - 1998 Concluído	Statistics (Bachelor) University of Isfahan, Irão

Percurso profissional

Ciência

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2022/01/01 - Atual	Investigador (Investigação)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa MagIC, Portugal

Docência no Ensino Superior

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2017/09 - Atual	Professor Auxiliar (Docente Universitário)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Outros

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2020 - Atual	Technical Advisor	World Health Organization, Suiça

2020 - Atual	Technical Advisor	United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Estados Unidos

2020/12/01 - 2025/12/31	Technical Advisor	Instituto Nacional de Estatistica, Portugal
	Instituto Nacional de Estatistica, Portugal

Projetos

Projeto

	Designação	Financiadores
2020/12/01 - Atual	Origens e Trajectórias (ICOT) da População Portuguesa 0 Bolseiro de Investigação Instituto Nacional de Estatistica, Portugal	Em curso
2015/01/01 - 2015/12/31	Quantitative Impact Study (QIS) in financial health analysis (FHA) - Bolseiro de Cientista Convidado International Statistical Institute (ISI), Países Baixos	Concluído

Outro

	Designação	Financiadores
2021/01/01 - 2021/12/01	International Statistical Literacy and Data Analytics Poster Competition - Bolseiro de Cientista Convidado International Statistical Institute, Países Baixos International Association for Statistical Education, Países Baixos	Concluído
2012/01/01 - 2012/12/31	International Project of Data and Statistical Literacy Strategic Planning - Bolseiro de Cientista Convidado International Statistical Institute (ISI), Países Baixos	Concluído

Produções

Publicações

Artigo em conferência	Ashofteh, Afshin. Autor correspondente: Ashofteh, Afshin. "A Review on Machine Learning in Fintech: The Case of Robot-Advisors". Trabalho apresentado em 23.ª Conferência da Associação Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação, Beja, 2023. No prelo Ashofteh, Afshin. "Ensemble Methods for Consumer Price Inflation Forecasting". Trabalho apresentado em 23.ª Conferência da Associação Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação, Beja, 2023. No prelo Ashofteh, Afshin. "Big Data for Credit Risk Analysis". 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40055-1_14 Ashofteh, Afshin. Autor correspondente: Ashofteh, Afshin. "Data Science Training for Finance and Risk Analysis: A Pedagogical Approach with Integrating Online Platforms". Trabalho apresentado em 9th International Conference on Risk Analysis (ICRA9), Perugia, 2022. No prelo Ashofteh, Afshin; Bravo, Jorge M.; Ayuso, Mercedes. Autor correspondente: Ashofteh, Afshin. "A Novel Layered Learning Approach for Forecasting Respiratory Disease Excess Mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic". Trabalho apresentado em 21th Portuguese Association for Information Systems Conference (CAPSI), 2021. Aceite para publicação Ashofteh, Afshin; Bravo, Jorge M.. Autor correspondente: Ashofteh, Afshin. "Life Table Forecasting in COVID-19 Times: An Ensemble Learning Approach". Trabalho apresentado em 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, 2021. 10.23919/cisti52073.2021.9476583 Ashofteh, Afshin; Bravo, J.M.. Autor correspondente: Ashofteh, Afshin. "A non-parametric-based computationally efficient approach for credit scoring". Trabalho apresentado em Conferencia da Associacao Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informacao (CAPSI2019), 2019. Publicado Ashofteh, Afshin. "Mining Big Data in statistical systems of the monetary financial institutions (MFIs)". Trabalho apresentado em International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA), Valencia, 2018. Publicado • 10.4995/CARMA2018.2018.8570 Ashofteh, Afshin. Autor correspondente: Ashofteh, Afshin. "Application of Stochastic Process Models in Security systems of E-Banking". Trabalho apresentado em International Conference on Electronic Banking and Payment Systems, 2013. Publicado Ashofteh, Afshin. Autor correspondente: Ashofteh, Afshin. "A study on Import Price Index by using Available Information of Customs office". Trabalho apresentado em The 9th International Statistics Conference, 2008. Publicado Ashofteh, Afshin. "Application of Kruskal_Wallis test on intrusion detection of computer networks". Trabalho apresentado em the 7th research week of the University of Isfahan, 2007. Publicado Ashofteh, Afshin. "Suggesting a Statistical method to Diagnose Order Point of Goods for Warehouses of Industrial Centers". Trabalho apresentado em The 6th Research Weak, 2005. Publicado Ashofteh, Afshin. "Statistical Methods and a Reliability Measure for Computer Intrusion Detection". Trabalho apresentado em International Conference on the FUTURE OF STATISTICAL THEORY,PRACTICE AND EDUCATION, Heydarabad, 2005. Publicado Ashofteh, Afshin. "Application of Statistical Tests for Detecting Intrusions into Computer Networks". Trabalho apresentado em The 7th International Statistics Conference, 2004. Publicado Ashofteh, Afshin. Autor correspondente: Ashofteh, Afshin. "Sample variance and covariance for stochastic processes". Trabalho apresentado em Forth Iranian Seminar of Probability and Stochastic Process, 2003. Publicado Ashofteh, Afshin. "Estimating Systematic Missing Values by Simulation". Trabalho apresentado em The Sixth International Statistics Conference, Tarbiat Modares University, 2002. Publicado Ashofteh, Afshin. Autor correspondente: Ashofteh, Afshin. "Weak Law of Large Numbers and Cesaro Uniform Integrability". Trabalho apresentado em The Third Iranian Seminar of Probability and Stochastic Process, 2001. Publicado
Artigo em revista	Afshin Ashofteh; Jorge M. Bravo; Mercedes Ayuso. "An ensemble learning strategy for panel time series forecasting of excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic". Applied Soft Computing (2022): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2022.109422. 10.1016/j.asoc.2022.109422 Ashofteh, Afshin. "Data science training for official statistics: A new scientific paradigm of information and knowledge development in national statistical systems". Statistical Journal of the IAOS (2021): https://doi.org/10.3233/SJI-210841. 10.3233/SJI-210841 Ashofteh, Afshin; Bravo, Jorge M.. "A Conservative Approach for Online Credit Scoring". Expert Systems with Applications (2021): 114835. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.114835. Publicado • 10.1016/j.eswa.2021.114835 Ashofteh, A.; Bravo, J.M.. "A study on the quality of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) official datasets". Statistical Journal of the IAOS 36 2 (2020): 291-301. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85086867893&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.3233/SJI-200674 Ashofteh, Afshin. "A superlative Import Price Index Based on Available Information of Customs office". Journal of Monetary and Financial Economics 15 25 (2009): Aceite para publicação Ashofteh, Afshin. "Scanner Chain Index for Consumer Price Index". Economical Statistics Journal 3 (2008): 49-60. Publicado Ashofteh, Afshin. Autor correspondente: Ashofteh, Afshin. "Survey on Evaluating Missing Values". Journal of Iranian Statistical Society 8 2 (2003): 40-47. Publicado Ashofteh, Afshin. Autor correspondente: Ashofteh, Afshin. "Robust Estimators of Location and Scale". Journal of Iranian Statistical Society 8 1 (2003): 28-35. Publicado Ashofteh, Afshin. Autor correspondente: Ashofteh, Afshin. "Multicollinearity and Ridge Regression". Journal of Neda (2002): 21-26. Publicado Ashofteh, Afshin. Autor correspondente: Ashofteh, Afshin. "Survival Analysis of the Esophageal and Gastric Cancer". Journal of Iranian Statistical Society 7 2 (2002): 3-10. Publicado
Capítulo de livro	Afshin Ashofteh. "Big Data for Credit Risk Analysis: Efficient Machine Learning Models Using PySpark". In Statistical Modeling and Simulation for Experimental Design and Machine Learning Applications, editado por Jürgen Pilz; Viatcheslav B. Melas; Arne Bathke, 245-265. Springer International Publishing, 2023. Publicado • 10.1007/978-3-031-40055-1_14 Afshin Ashofteh. "Teaching Note—Data Science Training for Finance and Risk Analysis: A Pedagogical Approach with Integrating Online Platforms". In Statistical Modelling and Risk Analysis, 17-25. Suiça: Springer, Cham, 2023. 10.1007/978-3-031-39864-3_2 Ashofteh, Afshin; Campos, Pedro. Autor correspondente: Ashofteh, Afshin. "A Review on Official Survey Item Classification for Mixed-Mode Effects Adjustment". In Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization, 53-61. Springer International Publishing, 2023. Publicado • 10.1007/978-3-031-09034-9_7
Recurso online	Ashofteh, Afshin. Spark Code: A Novel Conservative Approach for Online Credit Scoring. 2021. https://codeocean.com/capsule/0503126/tree/v1. 10.24433/CO.1963899.V1
Tese / Dissertação	Ashofteh, Afshin. "Data Science for Finance: Targeted Learning from (Big) Data to Economic Stability and Financial Risk Management". Doutoramento, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/135620.

Outros

Conjunto de dados

Ashofteh, Afshin. COVID-19 Combined Data-set with Improved Measurement Errors. Mendeley Data.

Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

	Título da apresentação	Nome do evento Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2021	New Machine Learning Approaches for Online Financial Big Data	Seminar on Data Science and Application Allameh Tabataba’i University
2019	Winner of the best paper of the conference entitled "A non-parametric-based computationally efficient approach for credit scoring using non-traditional data"	8th International Conference on Risk Analysis and Design of Experiments University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Vienna, Áustria)
2018/07/13	Mining Big-Data in statistical systems of monetary and financial institutions	International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA 2018) Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
2018	New technologies in Central Banking	Nova School of Business and Economics (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017	The Challenges of Improving Financial Data and Statistical Literacy in Developing Countries	61st World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute International Statistical Institute (Marakesh, Marrocos)
2016	Financial Stability and Statistical Systems in Central Banking	UNCTAD & WTO UNCTAD (Geneva, Suiça)

Orientação

	Título / Tema Papel desempenhado	Curso (Tipo) Instituição / Organização
2023 - 2023	Default Determinant Factors in Peer-to-Peer Lending Orientador	Estatística e Gestão de Informação (Mestrado) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Information Management School, Portugal
2023 - 2023	Mortgage Modification: A Systematic Review of the Literature - What lessons can be learned from the 2008 crisis and incorporated in the future Orientador	Estatística e Gestão de Informação (Mestrado) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Information Management School, Portugal

Participação em evento

	Descrição da atividade Tipo de evento	Nome do evento Instituição / Organização
2023 - 2023	Participating in a career of "From Educators To Entrepreneurial Facilitators" in Spain, which the goal was to create a set of facilitation techniques directed to Educators (Professors, Researchers, and Post-docs) to be able to actively act on reducing the gap between Academia and Business World so that classes can be taught in a way that brings Industry closer to students. Oficina (workshop)	From Educators To Entrepreneurial Facilitators (FEEF) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Università degli Studi di Padova, Itália Universidad de Cantabria, Espanha Hogeschool Gent Faculteit Natuur en Techniek, Bélgica
2017 - 2019	Volunteer lead - For three years, I was participating in WebSummit conference as a leader of volunteers. We were responsible for organizing and checking the different parts of events and allocating and supervising the volunteers. Congresso	WEB SUMMIT Conference
2017 - 2018	Participating in the athletic sports competition of the Universities of Portugal as a member of the athletic team of the University of Nova and winning the third prize among all Universities (Bronze Trophy). Outro	CNU Atletismo Ar Livre 2017/2018 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Arbitragem científica em conferência

	Nome da conferência	Local da conferência
2024/09/23 - 2034/09/25	The International Conference on Financial Technology (ICFT2024)	Mercure Singapore on Stevens, Singapore

Comissão de avaliação

	Descrição da atividade Tipo de assessoria	Instituição / Organização	Entidade financiadora
2021/01/01 - 2021/07/01	I was honored to be joined by five professors of Universities as a jury of the International Statistical Poster Competition of 2020-2021, which was organized by the education section of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). There was a National competition within each country involved, followed by international competition to determine the overall winners. The winners received their prizes at the 63rd World Statistics Congress of the ISI in the Netherlands in July 2021. Avaliador	International Statistical Institute, Países Baixos	International Statistical Institute

Curso / Disciplina lecionado

	Disciplina	Curso (Tipo)	Instituição / Organização
2023/09/01 - Atual	Deep Learning in Finance	(Mestrado)	Université Internationale de Rabat, Marrocos Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Portugal
2019 - Atual	Big Data Analytics	Big Data (Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Portugal
2017 - Atual	Financial Data Science	Financial Data Science (Mestrado)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Portugal
2017 - Atual	Market and Liquidity Risk Management	(Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Portugal
2005 - Atual	Financial Reports	Reporte Financeiro (Pós-Graduação)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Escola de Gestão de Informação, Portugal
2000 - Atual	Banking and Insurance Operations (Operações Bancárias e Seguradoras)	Data Science in Finance (Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Portugal
2000 - Atual	Risk Management (Gestão de Risco)	Análise e Gestão de Risco (Especialização pós-licenciatura)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Escola de Gestão de Informação, Portugal
2000 - Atual	Market and Credit Risk (Riscos de Mercado e de Crédito)	Riscos de Mercado e de Crédito (Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Escola de Gestão de Informação, Portugal
2000 - Atual	Banking and Insurance Economics	(Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Portugal
2000 - Atual	Predictive Analytics in Finance	(Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Portugal
2000 - Atual	Statistical Learning and Inference	(Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Portugal
2000 - Atual	Mathematical Statistics and Econometrics	(Licenciatura)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Portugal

Membro de associação

	Nome da associação	Tipo de participação
2019 - Atual	International Statistical Institute (ISI)	Memeber
2023 - 2026/09/26	Portuguese Association for Information Systems (PTAIS)	Member

Outro júri / avaliação

	Descrição da atividade	Instituição / Organização
2021 - Atual	Reviewer of the journal: - Expert Systems with Applications https://research.unl.pt/ws/portalfiles/portal/33771035/Certificate_Reviewing_Expert_Systems_Applications_Afshin_Ashofteh.pdf	Elsevier Inc, Estados Unidos
2004 - Atual	Reviewer of a journal and two conferences of International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, Florida, USA. - Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. - The International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation: IMETI, USA. - Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications: CITSA, Orlando, Florida, USA.	International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, Estados Unidos

Distinções

Prémio

2023	Teaching Award: The Best Blended Course (Data Science in Finance) in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Espanha Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Itália
2019	The best paper prize: awarded by the International Statistical Institute: Committee on Risk Analysis and Springer publishing company. Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Áustria International Statistical Institute, Países Baixos Springer Publishing Company LLC, Estados Unidos
2018	Third award of the athletic sports competition of the Universities (FADU & CNU) (Bronze Trophy). Federação Académica do Desporto Universitário (FADU), Portugal Campeonato Nacional Universitário (CNU), Portugal
2017	National Award as One of the Seven Top Researchers in Monetary and Banking Studies Monetary and Banking Research Institute, Irão
2015	Scholastic achievement award by Banco de Portugal Banco de Portugal, Portugal
2014	Award for authorship of a book Ministry of Education Iran, Irão
2010	Statistics World Day Award Iranian Statistical Society, Irão
2006	Encouraging letter for outstanding teaching and research activity University of Isfahan Faculty of Sciences, Irão