Krassie Petrova is a Senior Research lecturer the School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology. She has over 10 years of international experience of consulting in information systems development and management, and over 15 years of university teaching in information systems, programming, information security, and data communications and computer networks. She has published and presented in New Zealand and internationally. Her research areas include digital service and application adoption, business models and project management, information security, AI/ML applications, cloud and mobile computing, and education and  curriculum development. Her current research interests include mobile service and application development and adoption, ML applications, and cloud an mobile network security. At present, she is supervising PhD student research in SNN applications, sensor networks, ML/DL models and adversarial attacks, human factors in security, transnational education, project-based learning, and advanced ICT adoption by developing nations. She is editor-in-chief at Quality Assurance in Education (QAE), and associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information Technology and Education (JITE). She  is the Treasurer of the ATNAC New Zealand, and a member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and the Informing Science Institute.