Mario Fedrizzi

1963-1968: Scientific Liceum.
1968-1973: Faculty of Science of the University of Padua, Bachelor Degree in Mathematics.
1974-1976: Faculty of Economics of the University of Venice, Master's Degree in Operations Research.

Employment History

1976-1981: assistant professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics of the University of Trento, Italy.

1978-1981: instructor of Calculus, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento.

1981-1986: associate professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Trento.

1986-today: full professor, chair of Mathematics for Decisions, Faculty of Economics of the University of Trento.

2007-today: docent, Abo Akademi University, Finland.

2013-today: visiting professor, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland.

Teaching Activity in Undergraduate Courses

1978-1981: Calculus, Faculty of Sociology of the University of Trento.

1981-1986: Mathematical Methods for Economics, Faculty of Economics of the University of Trento.

1986-1993: Mathematics for Finance, Faculty of Economics of The University of Trento.

1988-1990: Analysis, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Trento.

1991-1996: Business Information Systems, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Trento.

1994-today: Mathematics for Decisions, Faculty of Economics of the University of Trento.

2002-2007: Algebra, Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Bozen, South Tirol.

2002-2008: Probability Theory and Satistics, Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Bozen, South Tirol.


Teaching Activity in Master and Ph.D. Courses

1994-1996: Mathematical Programming, Ph.D. program in Agricultural Economics, Department of Economics of the University of Trento.

1998-2000: Business Information Systems, Master program in Information and Communication Technologies of IIASS, Salerno, Italy.

1999-2000: Decision Support Systems, Master program in Advanced Management Techniques, Laboratory of Computer Engineering, Department of Computer and Management Sciences, University of Trento.

2001-today: Decision Modelling under Uncertainty, TUCS Doctoral School, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.

University Administration

1985-1991: Chairman of the Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Economics, University of Trento.

1987-1990: Chairman of the School of Computer Science, University of Trento.

1989-1995: Dean of the Faculty of Economics, University of Trento.

2000-2003: Member of the Founding Committee of the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Bozen.

2004-2008: Deputy Rector, University of Trento.

Company Administration

1995-2002: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Caritro Bank (the largest bank in Trentino Region).

1997-2006: Member of the board of Cedacri S.p.A. (the largest italian outsourcer of banking information systems).

2001-2004: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Iniziative Urbane S.p.A.

2002-2006: Member of the Board of Directors of Unicredit Banca S.p.A.

 

• utility and risk theory
• stochastic dominance
• group decision analysis
• decision spport systems
• fuzzy decision analysis
• fuzzy mathematical programming
• fuzzy regression analysis
• consensus modeling in GDM under uncertainty
• Social Network Analysis

 Member of the program committee of international conferences

MEPP ‘91 (Eckero, Finland), MEPP ‘92 (Marienham, Finland), IPMU ‘92 (Palma de Mallorca, Spain), Fuzzy-IEEE ‘92 (San Diego, USA), Fuzzy-IEEE ‘93 (San Francisco, USA), FLAI ‘93 (Linz, Austria), EUFIT ‘93, ‘94, ‘95, ‘96, ‘97, ‘98 (Aachen, Germany), IPMU ‘98 (Paris, France), IFSA ‘99 (Taiwan, R.O.C), 6th Fuzzy Days 1999 (Dortmund, Germany), Fuzzy-IEEE ‘99 ( Seoul, Korea), International Workshop on Preferences and Decisions 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2009 (Trento, Italy), IPMU 2000 (Madrid, Spain), ANNES’ 2001 (Dunedin, New Zealand), 7th Fuzzy Days (Dortmund, Germany), IPMU 2002 (Annecy, France), IPMU 2004 (Perugia, Italy), NCEI 2004 (Auckland, New Zealand), IPMU 2006 (Paris, France), 9th Fuzzy Days 2006 (Dortmund, Germany), EUSFLAT 2007 (Ostrava, Czech Republic), ICONIP’08 (Auckland, New Zealand), IPMU 2010 (Berlin, Germany), IPMU 2012 (Catania, Italy).

Member of scientific boards/committees

• 2006-today: international advisory board member, KEDRI, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.

• 2006-today: international advisory board member, Systems Research Institute, PolishAcademy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

•  2007-today: member of the steering committee of FiDiPro (Finland Distinguished Professor Program) chair at IAMSR, ÅboAkademiUniversity, Turku, Finland.

Member of the editorial board of international journals

• Control and Cybernetics, Springer-Verlag
• International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, World Scientific
• International Journal of General Systems, Taylor & Francis
• Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, Hindawi Publishing
• Group Decision and Negotiation, Springer-Verlag
• Journal of Real Options, WordPress

 Reviewer of the following journals

• Annals of Operations Research
• European Journal of Operational Research
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
• Information Fusion
• Information Sciences
• IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
• Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making
• Expert Systems
• International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems
• Group Decision and Negotiation
• International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making
• Omega

Consulting Activities

information systems and DSS design and implementation
office automation
process quality control
project management
expert systems and neural nets in financial analysis and planning
ERP systems design and implementation