Davide La Torre

Davide La Torre

Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Quantitative Methods
at the PRISM Research Center of SKEMA Business School, France

Davide La Torre, PhD, HDR, is an Applied Mathematician, Researcher, and University Professor. Currently he holds the position of Full Professor and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Institute at SKEMA Business School, Sophia Antipolis Campus, France.

He holds the French national qualification as Professeur des Universités in Applied Mathematics (CNRS 26), Computer Science (CNRS 27), and Economics (CNRS 5). He also holds the Italian national qualification as Professore Ordinario in Mathematical Methods for Economics (13 D4), Political Economy (13 A2), and Public Economics (13 A3).

His research and teaching interests include Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Business Analytics, Mathematical Modelling, and Operations Research.

He holds an HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in Applied Mathematics from the Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France (2021) and a Doctorate in Computational Mathematics and Operations Research from the University of Milan, Milan, Italy (2002) as well as professional certificates in Analytics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

In the past he held permanent and visiting university professor positions in Europe, Canada, Middle East, Central Asia, and Australia. He also served as Departmental Chair and Program Head at several universities. He has more than 180 publications in Scopus, most of them published in high IF journals ranging from Engineering to Business.”