Author: Francesco Lelli

Francesco Lelli is Professor of Business Process integration at the University of Tilburg and Managing Partner at CasaConforti, a Swiss based family office that he co-founded in 2013. His research interest lie in data science and data-driven applications with particular interest in the IT-oriented issues. In developing his research use quantitative methods and a prototype driven approach for validating the results. Practical outcome have been used in companies, like IBM, SAP, Telefonica, ERICSON, EY as well as international collaborations like the CMS experiment at CERN. He has a PhD in computer science and postdoctoral studies in nuclear physics, software engineering and economics; his scientific outcome has 19162 citations with an h-index of 12 and i10-index of 14 despite the fact that he did not publish in the past 5 years. In July he re-started his academic activity, and is currently serving as editor for MDPI and filing a patent in price dynamics in eCommerce. In the past years has served as interim CEO for 3 companies in Switzerland and Italy with the aim of restructuring their financial situation as well as developing their digital agenda.

Mentor for Your Thesis

Thanks for considering me as mentor for your thesis, however think twice! I am terrible and I will always ask you to do more no matter how good you will be or how hard you will work! 😉 Now we got that out of the way, we can talk more seriously. I am honored and […]

Take the Most from Your Thesis

You are in a important phase of your education and you should take the most from your thesis instead of having your thesis taking the most from you. As you are reading these lines you are probably shopping around for a thesis or internship but you have no clear idea on what to do. If […]

Abstract Representation of Cloud Computing

This picture is an abstract representation of cloud computing a technology that is very concrete but at the same time not clearly defined and the question “what is cloud computing?” usually lead to different answers from different people. Clouds Computing refers to a set of technologies that provides the possibility to share or outsource storage space […]

Teaching Statement

My Teaching Statement, a bit old but still very actual for me: If I hear it, I will forget it. If I see it, I will remember it. If I do it, I will understand it. ~Chinese Proverb Teaching, not only represents the transfer of knowledge and information from a more experienced person to one […]