Professors

Stéphanie Missonier received her PhD in Management of Information Systems from the University of Nice, Sophia Antipolis, France in 2008. Her research adopts an interdisciplinary perspective for designing innovative artefacts that aim at supporting team collaboration in different projects – including IT projects – through increasing the quality of their conversation. She will be a visiting scholar at Stanford, invited through the SCANCOR network. She is a member of AIM, Swiss Chapter of the AIS and has published in international outlets such as the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Organizational Studies and International Journal of Project Management (IJPM).

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• cross-boundary collaboration
• project management

Avdiji H., Elikan D., Missonier S. ; Pigneur Y. (2018, Jan). Designing Tools for Collectively Solving Ill-Structured Problems. Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Hussenot Anthony , Missonier Stéphanie (2017, Jun). New form of collaboration: how do makers participate in the definition of situated and social temporalities?. Organizations, Artifacts & Practices (OAP).

Missonier A., Missonier S., Géraudel M., Thelisson A.-S. (2016). Interorganizational cooperation in IT industry: How deal with paradoxical tensions?

Hussenot A. , Missonier S. (2016). Encompassing stability and novelty in organization studies: an events-based approach. Organization Studies, 37, 523-546.

Missonier Stéphanie (2016). Et si nous parlions pour clôturer la controverse ?. La Controverse dans l’appropriation des outils de gestion- Contes de connaissanc (pp. 55-86). l'Harmattan.

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• human-computer interaction

Cherubini M., Meylan A., Chapuis B., Humbert M., Bilogrevic I. ; Huguenin K. (2018, Oct). Towards Usable Checksums: Automating the Integrity Verification of Web Downloads for the Masses. Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (pp. 1256-1271). ACM.

Carrascal J. P., De Oliveira R. ; Cherubini M. (2015). To Call or to Recall? That's the Research Question. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 22, 1-30.

Cherubini M. (2014, Jan). Methodological and ethical implications of testing alternative designs for technologies supporting democratic processes. Proceedings of the COOP 2014 Workshop on Collaborative Technologies in Democratic Processes, International Reports on Socio-Informatics (IRSI), 11 (pp. 85-87).

Church K., Cherubini M. ; Oliver N. (2014). A large-scale study of daily information needs captured in situ. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 21, NA.

Carrascal J. P., Riederer C., Erramili V., Cherubini M. ; De Oliveira R. (2013, Jan). Your browsing behavior for a big mac: economics of personal information online. Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on the World Wide Web (WWW'13) (pp. 189-199)

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Thibault Estier joined the University of Lausanne in 1999. He received his PhD in Information Systems from the University of Geneva in 1995, then joined an internet startup (inextenso.com) which produced in 1997 the first Web CMS (Content Management System) on the market in Switzerland. He has been teaching database design, system integration, conceptual modeling, programming, and open source technologies for 20 years. His topic of research concerns evolutive information systems and evolutive knowledge bases.

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• evolutive information systems
• evolutive knowledge bases

Hillah N. , Estier T. (2018). The Application of Change Indicators in Mining Software Repositories. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (pp. 418-428). Springer International Publishing.

Métrailler A. , Estier T. (2014, Jan). EVOLIS Framework: a Method to Study Information Systems Evolution Records. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 3798-3807). Computer Society Press.

Legner C., Estier T., Avdiji H. ; Boillat T. (2013, Jan). Designing Capstone Courses in Management Education: Knowledge Activation and Integration Using an ERP-based Simulation Game. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems 2013 (ICIS 2013).

Métrailler A. , Estier T. (2012). EVOLIS : A framework for evaluating evolution of information systems. European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics News, 46-47.

Estier T. , Métrailler A. (2009, Juin). Déploiement agile d'ERP open source en PME. Actes du Colloque AIM 2009.

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Benoît Garbinato is full professor of Information Systems at the University of Lausanne, where he leads the Distributed Object Programming Lab (DOPLab). In the 1990s, he contributed to research in the field of distributed object systems, with the aim of making these systems reliable and scalable. He then worked in the industry, first for the UBS research laboratory in Zurich (Ubilab), where he led the software engineering group, and later for Sun Microsystems as a senior software architect. Since his return to the academic world in 2004, his research has focused on emerging distributed architectures, such as scalable peer-to-peer streaming services and location-based mobile systems. He contributed to over 100 publications in international conferences and journals, and is member of the ACM and the IEEE societies.

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• distributed computing systems
• mobile applications & services
• peer-to-peer systems

Moro A. , Garbinato B. (2018, Jan). ResPred: A Privacy Preserving Location Prediction System Ensuring Location-based Service Utility. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, 1 (pp. 107-118). SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications.

Harbich Matthieu, Bernard Gaël, Berkes Pietro, Garbinato Benoît, Andritsos Periklis. (2017). Discovering Customer Journey Maps using a Mixture of Markov Models. SIMPDA2017. International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis

Bostanipour B. , Garbinato B. (2017). A neighbor detection algorithm based on multiple virtual mobile nodes for mobile ad hoc networks. Computer Networks, 112, 294-313.

Chapuis B., Garbinato B. ; Andritsos P. (2017, Déc). An Efficient Type-Agnostic Approach for Finding Sub-sequences in Data. 2017 IEEE 19th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 15th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 3rd International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS). IEEE.

Kulkarni V. , Garbinato B. (2017, Jan). Generating synthetic mobility traffic using RNNs. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning for Geographic Knowledge Discovery - GeoAI '17 (pp. 1-4). ACM Press.

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Solange Ghernaouti is professor of the University of Lausanne, where she founded the Swiss Cybersecurity Advisory and Research Group. She helds a Phd in Computer Science and Telecommunication (Paris VI University), she is an internationally recognized expert on ICT Risk management, cybersecurity, cyberdefence and cybercrime related issues. She has contributed to several initiatives organised by international and European organisations, public and private institutions, research centres, and law enforcement agencies, among other instances of professional recognition all around the globe.  She is an active independent security advisor, an influential analyst and a regular media commentator.

Associate Fellow of the Geneva Center for Security Policy, former auditor of the French Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence, member of the scientific committee of the International Forum of Security Technologies, member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences, Solange Ghernaouti is Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur and has been recognised by the Swiss press as one of the outstanding women in professional and academic circles. 

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• cybersecurity
• cyberdefense
• cybercrime
• risks governance

Ghernaouti S. (2017). La cybercriminalité - Les nouvelles armes du pouvoir. Les Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, Lausanne, Suisse.

Ghernaouti S. , Dufour A. (2017). Internet (3073). Presses Universitaires de France , Paris, France.

Ghernaouti S. (2016). Cybersécurité, sécurité informatique et réseaux. Dunod, Malakoff, France.

Ghernaouti S. (2014). The role of CBMs in a renewed vision of international cybersecurity: prospects for a global response and an international treaty . The Quest for cyberconfidence (pp. 10-21). International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Geneva, Switzerland.

Ghernaouti S. (2014). Foreword. Architecting User-Centric Privacy-As-A-Set-Of-Services: A Digital Identity-Related Privacy Framework (pp. ix-x). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.

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Kévin huguenin earned his PhD degree from the Université of Rennes I and Inria in 2010 and a master’s degree in computer science from the Université de Nice — Sophia Antipolis in 2007. He is an assistant professor at UNIL-HEC Lausanne, where he leads the Information Security and Privacy Lab, within the Department of Information Systems. Before he joined UNIL in 2016, he held a tenured researcher position (Chargé de Recherche) at LAAS-CNRS, which he joined in 2015, in the Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance group (TSF). Prior to that, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at EPFL, in the Laboratory for Communications and Applications (LCA1) from 2011 to 2014, and at McGill University, in the Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (DISL) in 2011. During his time at EPFL, he worked for some time at the Nokia Research Center.

He published 10+ articles in international journals and 25+ articles in international conferences and I filed 2 patents with Nokia; he received the Best Student Paper Award at OPODIS’09, the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICDCS’10 and a scientific excellence award from CNRS. His global research interest is in security and privacy in distributed systems and mobile (social) networks, with a special emphasis on the human and social aspects of security and privacy. He is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research projects on privacy, at the frontier between computer science and social sciences (incl. law, economics and sociology) and/or medicine (mHealth, genomics, medical databases).

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• information Security and Privacy

Aïvodji U.M., Huguenin K., Huguet M.J. ; Killijian M.-O. (2018, Juin). SRide: A Privacy-Preserving Ridesharing System. Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec) (pp. 40-50). ACM.

Cherubini M., Meylan A., Chapuis B., Humbert M., Bilogrevic I. ; Huguenin K. (2018, Oct). Towards Usable Checksums: Automating the Integrity Verification of Web Downloads for the Masses. Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (pp. 1256-1271). ACM.

Huguenin K., Bilogrevic I., Machado Soares J., Mihaila S., Shokri R., Dacosta I. ; Hubaux J.-P. (2018). A Predictive Model for User Motivation and Utility Implications of Privacy-Protection Mechanisms in Location Check-Ins. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 17, 760-774.

Mermoud A., Keupp M., Huguenin K., Palmié M. ; Percia David D. (2018, Juin). Incentives for Human Agents to Share Security Information: a Model and an Empirical Test. Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS).

Olteanu A.M., Huguenin K., Dacosta I. ; Hubaux J.-P. (2018, Fév). Consensual and Privacy-Preserving Sharing of Multi-Subject and Interdependent Data. Proceedings of the 25th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) (pp. 1-16). Internet Society.

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Christine Legner is a Full Professor of Information Systems at the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC), University of Lausanne. Previously, she has served as Chair of Enterprise Systems and Electronic Business at European Business School (Wiesbaden, Germany) and was visiting researcher at INSEAD (France). Dr. Legner received a post-doctoral qualification (Habilitation) and doctorate from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), an M.S. in Economics from Université Paris–Dauphine (France), and a Diploma in Industrial Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe (Germany).

Her research interests relate to business information systems, with a particular focus on the role of innovative information technologies as enablers for organizational change, both within enterprises and across their entire value network. She has practical and academic experience in designing information systems for global organizations and value chains. She has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles in academic journals and conference proceedings on business networking, B2B integration, enterprise architecture management and service-oriented architectures. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Management Information Systems, the Journal of the AIS, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, the International Journal of Technology Management, and Electronic Markets, among others.

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• corporate Data Management
• next Generation Enterprise Systems
• enterprise Architecture Management / Business Engineering
• multinational Corporations (MNCs)
• business Networking
   

Lienhard K., Job O., Bachmann L. ; Legner C. (2017, Juin). A Framework to Advance Electronic Health Record System Use in Routine Patient Care. Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2017) (pp. 1114-1128).

Lienhard K. , Legner C. (2017, Fév). Principles in the Design of Mobile Medical Apps: Guidance for Those who Care. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftinsformatik 2017. 

Naous D., Schwarz J. ; Legner C. (2017, Juin). Analytics as a Service: Cloud Computing and the Trans-formation of Business Analytics Business Models and Ecosystems. Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2017).

Pentek T., Legner C. ; Otto B. (2017, Mai). Towards a Reference Model for Data Management in the Digital Economy. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST 2017) (pp. 73-82).

Schwarz J., Terrenghi N. ; Legner C. (2017, Juin). From One to Many Business Models: Uncovering Characteristics of Business Model Portfolios. Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2017).

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Benjamin Mueller is an Associate Professor of Digital Innovation and Design Science at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and an Associate Researcher at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. He received his PhD from the EBS Business School in 2010 and holds master degrees in Business and Information Systems from EBS Business School (Oestrich-Winkel, Germany) and Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA, USA).

Benjamin’s research focuses on how advanced information and communication technologies transform organizations. He pays particular attention to mechanisms through which individuals use technology to innovate in their work and the corresponding organizational benefits. Complementary to that, he explores ethical and societal implications of digitalization and contributes the ongoing debate on theory and theorizing in the IS discipline. Benjamin has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers in various outlets such as, for example, the Journal of Management Information Systems, the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, or Information & Management and the IS communities various conferences. Benjamin serves the IS community in various editorial capacities.

• Digitalization
• Digital Innovation and Future Work
• Post-Adoption Use
• IT Ethics
• Theory and Theorizing

Yves Pigneur is a professor at the University of Lausanne since 1984, and has held visiting professorships at Georgia State University, University of British Columbia, National University of Singapore, and HEC Montreal. He earned his doctoral degree at the University of Namur, Belgium. He was the former editor-in-chief of the academic journal Systèmes d’Information & Management. Together with Alexander Osterwalder, they invented the Business Model Canvas and authored in 2010 the international bestseller “Business Model Generation” (million+ copies in 40 languages); and more recently “Value Proposition Design”.

In November 2015, they have been ranked #15 in the “most influential business thinkers” by Thinkers50 and received the “Strategy Award”. In November 2017, they entered the top10 (#7) in the Thinkers50 ranking.

In 2016, Yves Pigneur won the AIS Outreach Award, given for the first time by the Association for Information Systems (AIS) at ICIS’2016, Dublin. “The AIS Outreach Practice Publication Award was created to recognize members who successfully transfer research to practitioner audiences in practice-based publications (more)

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• Information systems
• business model
• conceptual modelling
• innovation
• service design

Avdiji H., Elikan D., Missonier S. ; Pigneur Y. (2018, Jan). Designing Tools for Collectively Solving Ill-Structured Problems. Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Elikan D. , Pigneur Y. (2018, Jan). Brand Identity Ontology. 12th International Workshop On Value Modeling and Business Ontologies.

Fritscher B. , Pigneur Y. (2016). Classifying business model canvas usage from novice to master: A dynamic perspective. Business Modeling and Software Design: 5th International Symposium, BMSD 2015, Milan, Italy, July 6–8, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 257, pp. 134-151). Springer.

Liu Z., Bonazzi R. ; Pigneur Y. (2016). Privacy-based adaptive context-aware authentication system for personal mobile devices. Journal of Mobile Multimedia, 12, 159-180.

Liu Z., Shan J. ; Pigneur Y. (2016). The role of personalized services and control: An empirical evaluation of privacy calculus and technology acceptance model in mobile context. Journal of Information Privacy and Security, 12, 123-144.

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• complexity in functional networks
• neural information processing

Masulli P., Masulli F., Rovetta S., Lintas A. ; Villa A.E.P. (2017). Unsupervised Analysis of Event-related Potentials (ERPs) during an emotional Go/NoGo Task. Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing Applications WILF 2016 (Vol. 10147, pp. 151-161). Springer International Publishing.

Cabessa J. , Villa A. E. P. (2016, Jan). Attractor Dynamics Driven by Interactivity in Boolean Recurrent Neural Networks. Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2016, 9886 (pp. 115-122). Springer International Publishing.

Cabessa J. , Villa A.E.P. (2016). Expressive power of first-order recurrent neural networks determined by their attractor dynamics. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 82, 1232-1250.

Cabessa J. , Villa A.E.P. (2016, Juil). Attractor-based complexity of a Boolean model of the basal ganglia-thalamocortical network. 2016 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE.

Guy T.V., Kárný M., Lintas A. ; Villa A.E.P. (2016). Theoretical Models of Decision-Making in the Ultimatum Game: Fairness vs. Reason. Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (V) (pp. 185-191). Springer Nature.

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• data mining
• big data
• recommender systems
• machine learning