Bela Stantic

Professor, School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Bela Stantic is a Professor of Computer and Data Science. He recently joined the School of Hotel and Tourism Management – SHTM at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Professor Stantic is one of the pioneers of Big Data analytics and is internationally recognised in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data analytics. He successfully applied his research in an interdisciplinary manner, most prominently applying Big Data analytics to tourism and the environment. Despite being a computer and data scientist, he had the most cited paper published in the last three years in the Journal of Travel Research.  He has proven expertise in predictions and forecasting, which on multiple occasions made headlines worldwide. He was invited to give many keynotes and invited talks at highly-ranked international conferences and prestigious institutions. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in journals and conferences, which in turn helped to attract competitive funding from different sources, and he was involved in the supervision of more than 25 PhD students. For his work and bold and correct predictions based on Big Data analysis, in the media, Professor Stantic was dubbed the “Nostradamus of the 21 st  century”.