Mirjana Pejić Bach is a full professor
at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Economics in Zagreb. She holds a
PhD in system dynamics modeling from the Faculty of Economics, University of
Zagreb. She was trained at the MIT Sloan School of Management in system
dynamics and OliviaGroup in data mining. She is the leader and collaborator of
numerous projects in which she cooperates with Croatian companies and
international organizations, mainly through European Union projects and the
bilateral research framework. Her research areas are the strategic application
of information technology in business, data science, simulation modeling,
research methodology, qualitative and quantitative, especially multivariate
statistics, and modeling structural equations. She is the editor of several
scientific journals indexed in Scopus and WoS and has organized several
conferences and given plenary lectures at congresses, such as IEEE Systems. She
has won several international awards for her scientific work, such as the Emerald
Literati Network Awards for Excellence. She received the largest number of
citations from the field of Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing. The
main goal of her work is to support aspiring researchers through mentoring
doctoral theses and developing their scientific careers.