Eduardo Rodriguez

Ph.D. in Operations Research/Information Systems – Knowledge

Management

Aston University, Birmingham UK

MSc. in Mathematics (Actuarial Science)

Concordia University, Montreal Canada

M.S. in Business Administration

University of Los Andes Bogotá, Colombia

B.S. in Honors Mathematics

University of Los Andes Bogotá, Colombia

·  MATH 4710 – Data Visualization
·  MATH 3544 – Probability and Mathematical Statistics
·  MATH 2526 – Applied Statistics I
·  MATH 2995 – Matrix and Linear Algebra I
·  GE 2024 – Research and Technology

Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez is an assistant professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the Wenzhou – Kean University. Since he joined the university in the Fall 2020, he has taught various courses oriented to Data Analytics and created several initiatives including i) Risk Analytics Lab; ii) Mathematics, Innovation, and Discovery Space (MINDS); iii) Younger Researchers’s Corner (YORC); iv) Society, Uncertainty, and Data Sciences (SOUNDS) that aim to not only provide students with extended learning environment beyond their regular classroom, but also improve research capabilities among students, professors, and practitioners in the Risk Analytics field.
Dr. Rodriguez previously was the Sentry Insurance’s first Endowed Chair in Business Analytics and assistant professor in the School of Business and Economics at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point (UWSP), USA, where he led the development of Data Analytics Major which was a newly established program in the University of Wisconsin System. He has also been a corporate faculty at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, USA , adjunct professor of data analytics at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa Canada, and a visiting professor at several universities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia.
Dr. Rodriguez is the Founder and Principal of IQAnalytics Inc. Canada. Before joining academia, he held various positions in the private sector in Canada and Colombia, such as an advisor of knowledge management and quantitative analyst at Headquarter of Export Development Canada, regional director of PRMIA (Professional Risk Managers International Association) in Ottawa, and vice president in a number of Colombia’s largest banking and insurance companies at the time, like Colpatria and the Colmena Group.
Dr. Rodriguez were invited as an advisor of Finance, Innovation, Technology Certificate that is awarded by the Field Institute at the University of Toronto. He has served as the advisor of the program since March 2022. His main research interest is in the field of Strategic Risk, Risk Analytics and Knowledge Management/Analytics applied to Enterprise Risk Management. Dr. Rodriguez has written six books in Analytics with a seventh forthcoming on Risk Analytics. He has also published research papers in international journals. One of his research articles, Edwards, J.S. & Rodriguez, E. (2016) Using knowledge management to give context to analytics and big data and reduce strategic risk won the Best Research Paper Award, at ICKM (International Conference on Knowledge Management), Vienna, Austria.
With the robust experiences in both academia and industry in analytics, knowledge and risk management Dr.Rodriguez has lectured and consulted worldwide.

Dr. Rodriguez’ research interests are:
• Risk analytics and strategic intelligence
• Applied AI, Big data analytics
• Knowledge management applied to enterprise risk management
• Strategic risk of business and organizations
Dr. Rodriguez’s research emphasizes on creating strategic value through the analytics process and cutting-edge data-intensive methods. he adopts analytics as the core for designing and developing decision management systems to improve organization’s performance and control its strategic risk. Dr.Rodriguez combines a blend of descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics processes: Adaptive Business Intelligence, Decision Analytics, Data Envelopment Analysis, Multi-criteria Decision Making, and Decision Support / Management Systems, mainly in the application to Strategic and Enterprise Risk Management, and Credit Risk Management. His extensive experience in business and data analytics has embraced three pillars: (i) Risk Management, (ii) Knowledge Management (Knowledge and Information Management Systems); and (iii) Innovation Process Improvement.

Articles:
• Edwards, J. S., & Rodriguez, E. (2019) Remedies Against Bias in Analytics Systems, Journal of Business Analytics, 2:1, 74-87, DOI: 10.1080/2573234X.2019.1633890
• Rodriguez, E. & Edwards, J.S. (2019) AI in Smart Cities Development: A Perspective of Strategic Risk Management, European Conference on the Impact of AI and Robotics (ECIAIR), Oxford, UK
• Edwards, J. S., & Rodriguez, E. (2016) Using Knowledge Management to Give Context to Analytics and Big Data and Reduce Strategic Risk. Procedia Computer Science, 99, 36-49. DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2016.09.099
• Rodriguez, E & Edwards, J.S. (2014) Knowledge Management in support of Enterprise Risk Management, International Journal of Knowledge Management, Volume 10, Issue 2
• Rodriguez, E & Edwards, J.S. (2012) Transferring Knowledge of Risk Management to the Board of Directors and Executives, Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions, Volume 5, Issue 2
• Rodriguez, E & Edwards, J.S. (2010) People, Technology, Processes, and Risk Knowledge Sharing, Electronic Journal Knowledge Management, Volume 8 Issue 1
• Rodriguez, E & Edwards, J.S. (2009) Applying knowledge management to enterprise risk Management: Is there any value in using KM for ERM? Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions Issue: Volume 2, Issue 4

Books:
• Rodriguez, E. (2023) Risk Analytics: Data-Driven Decisions under Uncertainty, Forthcoming 2023, ISBN: 978-0-367-35961-4, CRC Press (Taylor&Francis Group), 232 pp.
• Rodriguez E. (Editor) Analytics Process: Strategic and Tactic Steps, ISBN 978-1-4987-8464-1, 2017 CRC Press (Taylor&Francis Group)
• Rodriguez E. (Editor) Analytics Applications in Latin America and Emergent Markets, ISBN 978-1-4987-6276-2, 2017 CRC Press (Taylor&Francis Group)
• Rodriguez E. (2007) Casos de Investigación de Operaciones – Pequeñas empresas. Cases in Operations Research- Small Businesses – ISBN 978-958-8307-08-4, Editorial Nomos S.A.- University CESA, Bogota, Colombia
• Rodriguez E. (2005) Gerencia del Conocimiento y Pensamiento Estratégico (Knowledge Management and Strategic Thinking) – ISBN 978-958-812-964-8, Editorial Carrera Septima – University CESA, Bogota, Colombia
• Rodriguez E. (2004) Gerencia Matemática (Mathematical
Management) – ISBN 978-958-682-484-5, Editorial Alpha y Omega – University CESA, Bogota Colombia
• Rodriguez E. Administración del Riesgo (Risk Management) (2001 and Reprinted 2002) – ISBN 978-958-682-339-3, Editorial Alpha y Omega – University CESA, Bogota, Colombia
• Special Exercises of Pre-calculus (1981), Published by University of Los Andes Book Chapters:
• Rodriguez E., Edwards J.S. (2020) AI in Smart Cities Development: A Perspective of Strategic, Risk Management, in Jay Liebowitz (Editor), Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, CRC Press ( Taylor&Francis
Group)
• Rodriguez E., Edwards J.S. and Ramirez G. (2019) Competencies for the Design, Implementation, and Adoption of the Analytics Process, in Susan A. Vowels and Katherine L. Goldberg (Editors), Teaching Data Analytics:
Pedagogy and Program Design, Accepted and Forthcoming, CRC Press
• Edwards J.S. & Rodriguez E. (2018) Knowledge Management for Action-orientated Analytics, in Suliman Hawamdeh and Hsia-Ching Chang (Editors), Analytics and Knowledge Management, CRC Press
• Rodriguez E. (2017) About the analytics process, in Eduardo Rodriguez (Editor), Analytics Process: Strategic and Tactic Steps, CRC Press
• Rodriguez E. (2017) Illustrating the Analytics Process through Risk Assessment and Modeling, in Eduardo Rodriguez (Editor), Analytics Process: Strategic and Tactic Steps, CRC Press
• Rodriguez E. (2017) Analytics, Strategy, and Management Control Systems,
in Eduardo Rodriguez (Editor), Analytics Process: Strategic and Tactic Steps, CRC Press
• Rodriguez E. (2017) Evolution of Analytics Concept, in Eduardo Rodriguez (Editor), Analytics Applications in Latin America and Emergent Markets, CRC Press
• Rodriguez E. (2017) The Analytics Knowledge Management Process, in Eduardo Rodriguez (Editor), Analytics Applications in Latin America and Emergent Markets, CRC Press
• Rodriguez E. (2017) Big Data Analytics and Public Bus Transportation Systems (PBTS): A Strategic Intelligence approach based on Knowledge and Risk Management, in Greg Richards (Editor) Government Analytics, CRC Press
• Rodriguez, E. & Edwards J.S (2011) Managing Knowledge of Risk Management, in Prasanta Dey (Editor), Project Risk Management
• Rodriguez, E. & Edwards J.S. (2009) Risk and Knowledge Management Encyclopedia Knowledge Management-Schwartz, Idea Group
• Rodriguez, E. (2008) A bottom-up strategy for a KM implementation at EDC Export Development Canada.Chapter 10 in Making Cents Out of Knowledge
Management (Liebowitz, J.,ed), Lanham, MD.: Scarecrow Press Inc.
• Rodriguez, E. Scoring Methods for risk classification (2000) Technical Report Concordia University, Mathematics & Statistics Department
• Rodriguez E. Pre-calculus Exercises (1984) Internal Publication Mathematics Department, Los Andes University