Biography

Hi, I’m Ivan Jureta, thank you for visiting. I’m a Senior Director at STEMCELL Technologies, the 30-year old Canadian biotech, and Chercheur qualifié honoraire du F.R.S.-FNRS with the Belgian National Research Fund.

I’m a former tenured professor at University of Namur (Belgium) and was a co-founder of JTT, a management consultancy, b92.fm, a music streaming service, BStorm, a digital transformation consultancy, and Hilbert Paradox, a healthcare data management and governance platform.

I hold a PhD in economics and management. I authored and co-authored more than 90 peer reviewed research publications, most of which are available on this website (also via Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and DBLP), and two peer-reviewed books, “Analysis and Design of Advice” and “The Design of Requirements Modelling Languages“, both with Springer, and available on Amazon.

I used to do research at the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto and the Department of information engineering and computer science at the University of Trento, in both cases with John Mylopoulos and Alex Borgida (affiliated with Rutgers), as well as briefly at The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, in Katia Sycara’s group. At the University of Namur, I used to work mainly with Stephane Faulkner and Pierre-Yves Schobbens. I studied at Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and University of Namur. After living in Serbia, Belgium, UK, and US, I now live in North Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Although I am no longer actively part of the academic community, I remain interested in the design of decision governance. I particularly enjoy working on this when the aim is to have minimal decision governance, that is, the simplest (and cheapest) possible framework that achieves desired decision quality, as well as when decisions involve significant uncertainty about underlying causal mechanisms and there is no structured information. These were and will continue to be important interdisciplinary topics, with a new twist now that decision support is becoming more sophisticated through the use of AI, the fact that to build specialized AI for decision support requires a deep understanding of the decision governance needed to improve decisions in a domain, and that more and more of the decision processes can be outsourced to multi-agent systems where agents run on large language model AI.

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