Australian National University (Australia) - scheduled 2025
Third-party funding and Grants
Transfer project “Plattform zur Förderung von Energieeffizienz und CO2-Reduktion in Privathaushalten” funded by the Joachim Herz Stiftung (80000€), 2025
Individual Global Partnership Grant for co-funding of a research stay at the Australian National University (ANU), "Recommendation Systems for nudging households in Germany and Australia towards energy-efficient behavior to reduce CO2 emissions", by the DFG through the Strategic Partnerships Program of the Excellence (2500 €), 2025
Add-on Fellowship of the Joachim Herz Stiftung in Interdisciplinary Economics and Interdisciplinary Business Administration , “Feldstudie: Nudging von energieeffizientem Verhalten in privaten Haushalten durch Anwendung erklärbarer Multi-Agenten-Empfehlungssysteme”, (15500 €), 2023 – 2025
Participating Researcher at the Scientific Network Programme “Management AI”, funded by the DFG (36900 € in total), 2024 - 2026
Individual International Connections Grant for a research stay at the Australian National University (ANU), "Nudging Energy-Efficient Behavior in Private Households through the Recommendation Systems", funded by the DFG through the Strategic Partnerships Program of the Excellence (6000 €), 2023
Individual Grant for a research stay at the Universidad de La Habana, Kuba (UH), "Sustainable Economic Development and Recommendations Systems supporting Energy-Efficiency in Private Households", funded by the DAAD through the Berlin Center for Global Engagement (BCGE) (4400 €), 2023
Co-PI at the project “AI for Energy Finance”, funded by the European Union through the Romania's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (ca. 1.4 Mio. € in total), 2023 - 2026
Co-PI at the project “AI Marketer”, funded by the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB), Program for promoting Research, Innovations and Technologies (ProFIT), (296530 € in total), 2021 - 2023
Co-PI at the HU Berlin - National University Singapore (NUS) Joint Research Project in “Augmented Intelligence in Digital Society”, funded by the National University Singapore (NUS) (16500 € in total), 2018 - 2020
Individual grant of Erasmus Mundus BMU-MID for 6 months exchange mobility at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (9000 €), 2013 - 2014
Teaching
B.Sc.
Strategie, Organisation und Information Technology (Lecture & Exercise, ca. 400 students); SoSe23
Introduction to Programming in Java (Lecture & Exercise, ca. 200 students); SoSe24, SoSe23, SoSe21, SoSe20, SoSe18 (Exercises available in YouTube, Link)
Management Simulation (Simulation Game, 35 students), International Summer School in Economics and Management (ISSEM) of the HU Berlin in Havana, Cuba; SoSe19, SoSe17, SoSe16, SoSe15
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning (Lecture), International Summer School in Economics and Management (ISSEM) of the HU Berlin in Havana, Cuba; SoSe23
Business Analytics and Data Science (Exercise, ca. 150 students/ 90 exams); WiSe20-21
Seminar IT Security and Privacy (40 students); SoSe23
Research Seminar Information Systems (Ph.D. & selected MSc theses); WiSe23-24, WiSe22-23, SoSe21, WiSe20-21, SoSe20
Service
Refereeing activities
BISE (Business & Information Systems Engineering) journal, Reviewer
Tagung WI (Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik), 2024, Associate Editor and Reviewer
ECIS (European Conference on Information Systems), 2024, Reviewer
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Workshop within NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems), 2024 & 2023, Reviewer & Meta-Reviewer
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Workshop within ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations), 2024 & 2023, Reviewer
International Journal of Forecasting, Reviewer
Further Engagements
Expert advisor of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) Management office, support with Data Analyses for the application for BUA prolongation to the DFG, 2024 - 2025
Member of the ProFiL-Program (Professionalisierung für Frauen in Forschung und Lehre: Mentoring – Training – Networking), since 2023
Expert of the Deutsche Klima-Konsortium e.V. (DKK), since 2020
Expert advisor of the Vice President for Research and Research Service Centre of the HU Berlin, 2016 - 2019
Volunteer support for Ukrainian refuge researchers in Berlin, since 2022
Advisor to several StartUps, since 2021
Selected conferences
Tagung für Wirtschaftsinformatik 2024: Optimizing Household Energy Use: An Activity-based Recommendation System for Reducing CO2 Emissions. Würzburg (with Löschmann L and Lessmann S) https://aisel.aisnet.org/wi2024/87
ADBI Annual Conference 2023 Sustainable Development Goals: Midway Assessment and the Road Ahead: International Green Economy Collaboration Networks: pathway or peril for SDG 13? (with Aisbett E and Steinhauser R)
ICLR 2023 Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Workshop: Activity-Based Recommendations for the Reduction of CO2 Emissions in Private Households (with Löschmann L) https://iclr.cc/virtual/2023/13480
NeurIPS 2022 Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Workshop: Explainable Multi-Agent Recommendation System for Energy-Efficient Decision Support in Smart Homes (with Boer A, Knoblauch J, Schewina KI, Vihs J) https://neurips.cc/virtual/2022/59278
NUS Workshop on Research Metrics (2019), National University Singapore, Singapore (SG), Is Scientific Performance a Function of Funds?
Singapore Economic Review Conference 2019 (SERC), Singapore (SG): Emergence of Trends in Economics
International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta 2017), Hong Kong (CN): A multivariate dynamic analysis of third-party funds
Selected publications
Papers in peer-reviewed journals
Riabchuk V, Hagel L, Germaine F and Zharova* A (2024) Utility-Based Context-Aware Multi-Agent Recommendation System for Energy Efficiency in Residential Buildings. Information Fusion, 112, 102559. Code in GitHub. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2024.102559
Zharova* A, Boer A, Knoblauch J, Schewina KI and Vihs J (2024). Explainable Multi-Agent Recommendation System for Energy-Efficient Decision Support in Smart Homes. Environmental Data Science, 2024, 3:e7. Code in GitHub. https://doi.org/10.1017/eds.2024.8
Zharova* A, Härdle WK, and Lessmann S (2023) Data-driven support for policy and decision-making in university research management: A case study from Germany. European Journal of Operational Research, 308(1), 353-368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2022.10.016 Quantlets in GitHub
Zharova* A, Tellinger-Rice J and Härdle WK (2018) How to measure the performance of a Collaborative Research Center. Scientometrics, 117(2), 1023–1040. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2910-8 Quantlets in GitHub
Papers in peer-reviewed conferences / Proceedings
Aisbett E, Steinhauser R, and Zharova A (2024) International Green Economy Collaboration Networks: pathway or peril for SDG 13? Asian Develoment Bank Institute Working Paper Series.
Zharova* A, Löschmann L, and Lessmann, S (2024) Activity-Based Recommendations for Demand Response in Smart Sustainable Buildings. Tagung für Wirtschaftsinformatik 2024 (accepted). arXiv Preprint. Code in GitHub. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.05173
Working Papers / Preprints
Zharova* A and Lee HE (2022) Understanding User Perception and Intention to Use Smart Home for Energy Efficiency: A Survey. arXiv Preprint. Code in GitHub. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.05019
Zharova* A, Mihoci A and Härdle WK (2016). Academic ranking scales in economics: prediction and imputation, SFB 649 Discussion paper, (020)2016. Quantlets in GitHub
