Waldemar Tarczynski is Professor of Economic Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Szczecin in Poland. He is also Head of the Institute of Finance, Head of the Department of Insurance and Capital Markets, Member of the Committee on Finance Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Member of the Council of the Section for Classification and Data Analysis at Polish Statistical Association and Member of the Committee of Statistics and Econometrics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was also Rector of the University of Szczecin in 2005-2008 and 2008-2012. Prof. Tarczynski has authored and co-authored approximately 190 publications mainly in the area of applications the quantitative methods in analysis of economic phenomena, particularly capital markets.
Kesra Nermend is Professor at the University of Szczecin, President of Center of Knowledge and Technology Transfer at University of Szczecin, and Head of the Department of Computational Methods in Experimental Economics in Institute of IT in Management in The Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Szczecin (Poland). He has authored and co-authored about 100 publications mainly in the area of using quantitative methods and tools for the analysis of economic phenomena. Prof. Nermend is also Chair of Organization Committees and member of Programme Committees of scientific conferences; member of Polish Information Processing Society, West-Pomeranian branch; member of Scientific Society of Organization and Management, West-Pomeranian branch; member of Polish Association for Knowledge Management; member of Section of Classification and Data Analysis at Polish Statistical Association and West Pomeranian Information Society Council.