Marios Kremantzis

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ABOUT MARIOS KREMANTZIS

Dr Marios Kremantzis (SFHEA, CMBE, AFORS) is a decision scientist and Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics at the University of Bristol Business School. He serves as Programme Co-Director for the MSc Management (and pathways)(700+ students), Education Lead for the Technology & Operations Academic Group (35+ academics), and Co-Chair of the Business Education Research & Scholarship (BERS) Network, supporting curriculum innovation and quality assurance at School level.Funded by EPSRC and BAE Systems, he completed a PhD in Management Science at the University of Southampton, specialising in optimisation, efficiency/performance measurement (Data Envelopment Analysis) and multi-criteria decision analysis. At Bristol, he applies and extends this toolkit to employability analytics, student engagement, and the pedagogical implications of Generative and Agentic AI, linking rigorous modelling with research-informed educational innovation.His work develops mathematical and AI-enabled approaches that benchmark performance, generate actionable insights and support complex decisions. He has published in Studies in Higher Education, Expert Systems with Applications, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Sustainable Development, Operational Research, Journal of Global Information Management, and other outlets, alongside scholarly commentary in Times Higher Education. He regularly curates analytics-and-education streams and runs DEA/analytics workshops for international conferences (e.g, OR Society, IFORS, DEA, ICBAP, OAPA, ATINER).Editorial & community leadership: Co-Editor-in-Chief of Intelligent Technologies in Education (OAPA); Associate Editor of Interactive Learning Environments (Q1; technology-enabled interactive learning); and Lead Guest Editor/Guest Editor for multiple special issues (SHE, JUTLP), including a Socio-Economic Planning Sciences issue on “Generative AI and Data Envelopment Analysis for Performance Measurement and Public Value”.He leads the Bristol Institute for Learning & Teaching project “Enhancing Teaching and Learning through AI Chatbots in Higher Education”. He founded and chairs the OR Society SIG “OR, Analytics & Education”, serves on the OR Society’s General Council and Education Sub-Committee, and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Associate Fellow of the OR Society.Awards include Outstanding Lecturer (2025), Research Pedagogy (2025), Personal Tutor (2024) and the University of Bristol Inspiring & Innovative Teaching Award (2023); his MSc Business Analytics team was shortlisted for the 2025 Teaching Team Award.