Employment history	2022- present: assistant professor of Information Systems at University of Tartu (Faculty of Science and Technology, Institute of Computer Science, Chair of Software Engineering) 2021- present: Task Force “Data Quality and FAIR metrics” member, European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) 2023-present: EDSC ambassador (European Digital Skills Certificate, as part of Action 9 of the Digital Education Action Plan (2021- 2027) – JRC/SVQ/2022/OP/0013) 2024-present – Advisory Board member at Switch, Switzerland 2022- 2022: visiting researcher at Delft University of Technology, Faculty Technology Policy and Management (6 months) 2020-2022: assistant professor: University of Latvia, Faculty of Computing 2021- 2022: IT-expert, Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre 2019-2022: researcher, University of Latvia, Faculty of Computing, Innovation Laboratory 2021 – expert (mentor, Latvian open geospatial data hackathon for pupils 2021), National Centre for Education Republic of Latvia 2021 – expert, the “Idea Laboratory 2021” in scope of the Emerging Technologies and Innovations Days of University of Latvia 2021 – advisor, Faculty of Social Sciences/Institute for Social and Political Studies 2020 – expert (mentor, Latvian open data hackathon for pupils 2020), National Centre for Education Republic of Latvia 2019-2020: tutor/ teacher. University of Latvia, Faculty of Computing 2017-2019: scientific assistant. University of Latvia, Faculty of Computing (“Innovative information technologies” lab) 2015: technical specialist, Ltd. “Data Security Solutions” 2012: customer service, JSC “Swedbank”
Education	2020: Doctor Degree (Ph.D.) in computer sciences and Informatics (Data processing Systems and computer networks) 2019: Master of Natural Sciences in Computer Science – summa cum laude (red diploma), Certificate of Excellence 2017: Bachelor of Natural Sciences in Computer Science 2015: First-level Professional Higher Education – Computer Systems and Computer Networks Administrator
Conferences	2023 Keynotes and Invited talks: Keynote for the 5th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA2023) “Internet and Big Data in Economics and Social Sciences” – “Public data ecosystems in and for smart cities: how to make open / Big / smart / geo data ecosystems value-adding for SDG-compliant Smart Living and Society 5.0?”, June 28-30, Seville, Spain Keynote for the 3rd International Workshop on Democracy & AI (DemocrAI) held in conjunction with 20th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), – “Unlocking the symbiotic relationship of Artificial Intelligence, Data Intelligence, and Collaborative Intelligence for Innovative Decision Making and Problem Solving”, November 16, Jakarta, Indonesia CyberCommando’s meetup 2023 “What do Internet of Things Search Engines know about you? or IoTSE as a vulnerable open data sources detection tool“, October 26, Riga, Latvia HackCodeX Forum – keynote with the talk “Data Quality as a prerequisite for you business success: when should I start taking care of it?” June 5, Riga, Latvia Conference papers: EGOV2023 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2023, September 5-7, Budapest, Hungary DGO2023: 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Together in the unstable world: Digital government and solidarity, 11-14 July 2023, Gdańsk, Poland ICCNS2023: International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services – June 19-22, Valencia, Spain QSD 2023: QWorld Quantum Science Days 2023 – May 29-31, Online RiiForum2023: Research and Innovation Forum 2023 “Innovation 5.0: Navigating shocks and crises in uncertain times Technology-Business-Society”: “Advances in ICT & the Society: threading the thin line between progress, development and mental health”, April 11-14, 2023, Krakow, Poland – plenary debate 2022 KMIS2022: 14th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Systems (24.10.2022-26.10.2022), Valletta, Malta – best paper award ICEGOV2022: 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance: “Digital Governance for Social, Economic, and Environmental Prosperity” (4.10.2022-7.10.2022), Guimaraes, Portugal – best paper award nominee & workshop organizer and chair EGOV2022: IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2022 in conjunction with 23rd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (6.09.2022-8.09.2022), Linkoping, Sweden ICOD2022: International Conference on Open Data Challenges in times of crisis and growth (28.11.2022-2.12.2022), Zagreb, Croatia IDSTA2022: The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (5.09.2022-7.09.2022), San Antonio, Texas, USA EGETC2022: Electronic Governance with Emerging Technologies Conference (12.09.2022-14.09.2022) (Mexico, web-based) ISGOV2022: International Innovation and Smart Government Conference – keynote with the talk “Data as an asset for Sustainable Development of data-driven Smart Cities and Smart Society” (12.09.2022-14.09.2022) (Mexico, web-based) euroCRIS2022: 15th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems – Linking Research Information across data spaces (11.05.2022-14.05.2022), Croatia RiiForum2022: Research and Innovation Forum 2022, (20.04.2022-22.04.2022) Athens, Greece (hybrid mode) Invited Talk (2022) “Data Security as a top priority or what Internet of Things (IoT) Search engines know about you“, monthly “Virtual Brown Bag Lunch Talks” intended for the Information Technologies, Manufacturing, and Engineering Employees in Companies associated with Index Manufacturing Association (Mexico, web-based), June 16 Keynote for “Integration of open data and artificial intelligence in the development of smart cities in Africa” workshop organized as part of the African Cities Lab Project, keynote speaker with the talk on “Open data and crowdsourced data as enablers and drivers for smart African cities” – July 5 (web-based) The 12th Samos 2022 Summit on ICT-Enabled Governance in conjunction with the 9th International Summer School On Open and Collaborative Governance, July 4-8 2022, Samos, Greece European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and Evidence-Based Toxicology Collaboration (EBTC) joint workshop for setting the scene on the creation of a standard for data exchange in support of automation of Systematic Review – speaker / expert – July 7 (web-based) AIRSI2022 Technologies 4.0 in Tourism, Services & Marketing – July 11-13 (web-based) ONE Conference 2022 (Health, Environment, Society) – panellist of the “Turning open science into practice: causality as a showcase” thematic session as part of “ONE society” thematic track (Brussels & online, 21-24 June) Invited Talk (2022) Babu Banarasi Das University (BBDU, Department of Computer Science and Engineering) Development Program «Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development» & ShodhGuru Innovation and Research Lab, Soft Computing Research Society & IEEE UP Section, Computational Intelligence Society Chapter – invited speaker and guest of honor with the talk “Artificial Intelligence for open data or open data for Artificial Intelligence” September 22 (web-based) Invited Talk (2022) University of Tartu (Institute of Computer Science) & Swedbank Data Science Seminar “When, Why and How? The Importance of Business Intelligence” – invited speaker and panelist with the talk “Data Lake or Data Warehouse? Data cleaning or data wrangling? How to ensure the quality of your data?” November 19, Tartu, Estonia 2021 IDSTA2021: The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications, (15.11.2021-16.11.2021), Tartu, Estonia (web-based); IOTSMS2021: The International conference on Internet of Things, Systems, Management and Security (6.12.2021-9.12.2021), Valencia, Spain (web-based); ICEGOV2021: 14th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance “Smart Digital Governance for Global Sustainability” (6.10.2021-8.10.2021), Athens (hybrid mode); European Biobank Week 2021 “Biobanking for our Future – Opportunities Unlocked” (8.11.2021-10.11.2021), Belgium (web-based); International Conference and Expo on Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials 2021 – Invited Speaker (16.09.2021-18.09.2021), (web-based); RCIS2021: The Fifteenth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, Cyprus (11.05.2021 – 14.05.2021), (web-based) 2020 IoTSMS2020: The 7th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security, France, (14.12.2020 – 16.12.2020), (web-based); SNAMS2020: The Fourth International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications (DSEA 2020) in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security, France, (14.12.2020 – 16.12.2020), (web-based); MCNA2020: The Fourth International Conference on Multimedia Computing, Networking and Applications, Spain, (19.10.2020 – 22.10.2020), (web-based); IHCI2020: 14th International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction in conjunction with 14th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Croatia, (23.07.2020 – 25.07.2020), (web-based); ICT2020: 13th International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings in conjunction with 14th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Croatia (21.07.2020 – 23.07.2020), (web-based); ICEIS2020: 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Czech Republic, (05.05.2019 – 07.05.2019), (web-based) 2019 SNAMS2019: The Third International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications (DSEA 2019) in conjunction with The Sixth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security, Spain, (22.10.2019 – 25.10.2019); eHealth2019: 11th International Conference on e-Health in conjunction with 13th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (17.07.2019 – 19.07.2019), Portugal, Porto; ICEIS2019: 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (03.05.2019 – 05.06.2019), Crete, Heraklion 2018 SNAMS2018: The Second International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications (DSEA2018) in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (15.10.2018 – 18.10.2018), Spain; DB&IS2018: 13th International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems (Baltic DB&IS 2018) (01.07.2018 – 04.07.2018), Lithuania, Trakai. Local conferences and congresses (including international) 79th international scientific conference of the University of Latvia, Cognitive Science, Latvia 79th international scientific conference of the University of Latvia, Data Science and information Technologies, Latvia The 14th conference of Latvian Association of Open Technologies “How to Stay Open in the New Era“. Latvian Open Technologies Association (LATA), Latvia The 13th conference of Latvian Association of Open Technologies “Data-driven nation”.  Latvian Open Technologies Association (LATA) , Latvia  DIG-IN Forum (POP-UP Demo center), Ministry of Economy, Latvia 77th international scientific conference of the University of Latvia, Latvia 76th international scientific conference of the University of Latvia, Latvia
Publications	2024 Lnenicka, M., Nikiforova, A., Luterek, M., Milic, P., Rudmark, D., Neumaier, S., Santoro, C., Casiano Flores, C., Janssen, M., & Rodríguez Bolívar, M. P. (2024). Identifying patterns and recommendations of and for sustainable open data initiatives: A benchmarking-driven analysis of open government data initiatives among European countries. Government Information Quarterly, 41(1): 101898, Q1, Impact Factor: 7.8 M. Lnenicka, A. Nikiforova, A. Clarinval, M. Luterek, D. Rudmark, S. Neumaier, K. Kević, M. P. R. Bolívar, Sustainable open data ecosystems in smart cities: A platform theory-based analysis of 19 European cities, Cities, Volume 148, 2024, 104851, ISSN 0264-2751, Q1, Impact Factor: 6.7 Korobenko, D., Nikiforova, A., Rajesh, S. (2024) Towards a Privacy and Security-Aware Framework for Ethical AI: Guiding the Development and Assessment of AI Systems. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Molodtsov, F., Nikiforova, A. (2024). “An Integrated Usability Framework for Evaluating Open Government Data Portals: Comparative Analysis of EU and GCC Countries”. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Tseng, H., Nikiforova, A. (2024). “Unlocking the Potential of Open Government Data: Exploring the Strategic, Technical, and Application Perspectives of High-Value Datasets Opening in Taiwan”. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Rajamäe-Soosaar, K., Nikiforova, A. (2024). “Exploring Estonia’s Open Government Data Development as a Journey towards Excellence: Unveiling the Progress of Local Governments in Open Data Provision” In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research 2023 Guerra-García, C., Nikiforova, A., Jiménez, S., Perez-Gonzalez, H. G., Ramírez-Torres, M., & Ontañon-García, L. (2023). ISO/IEC 25012-based methodology for managing data quality requirements in the development of information systems: Data quality by design. Data & Knowledge Engineering, 102152, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2023.102152, Q2, Impact Factor: 1.5, CiteScore: 4.9 Nikiforova, A., Rizun, N., Ciesielska, M., Alexopoulos, C., Miletić, A. (2023). Towards High-Value Datasets Determination for Data-Driven Development: A Systematic Literature Review. In: Lindgren, I., et al. Electronic Government. EGOV 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14130. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41138-0_14 McBride, K., Nikiforova, A., and Lnenicka, M. (2023) ‘The Role of Open Government Data and Co-creation in Crisis Management: Initial Conceptual Propositions from the COVID-19 Pandemic’. Information Polity, 28(2), 219-238, http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/IP-220057, Q2, IF: 2.784, CiteScore: 4.4 Nikiforova, A., Alexopoulos, C., Rizun, N., Ciesielska, M. (2023) Identification of High-Value Dataset determinants: is there a silver bullet for efficient sustainability-oriented data-driven development? In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (pp. 676-678), 10.1145/3598469.3598556 Nikiforova, A., Flores, M.A.A. and Lytras, M.D. (2023), “The Role of Open Data in Transforming the Society to Society 5.0: A Resource or a Tool for SDG-Compliant Smart Living?“, Lytras, M.D., Housawi, A.A. and Alsaywid, B.S. (Ed.) Smart Cities and Digital Transformation: Empowering Communities, Limitless Innovation, Sustainable Development and the Next Generation, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 219-252. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80455-994-920231011 Nikiforova, A., Draheim, D., Taveter, K., Bharosa, N. (2023). PPPS’2023 – Proactive and Personalised Public Services: Searching for Meaningful Human Control in Algorithmic Government. EGOV-CeDEM-ePart2023, September,5-7, 2023, Budapest, Hungary Nikiforova, A. (2023). Open Data Hackathon as a Tool for Increased Engagement of Generation Z: To Hack or Not to Hack?. In: Ortiz-Rodríguez, F., Tiwari, S., Sicilia, MA., Nikiforova, A. (eds) Electronic Governance with Emerging Technologies. EGETC 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22950-3_13 Ukpabi, D.C., Karjaluoto, H., Botticher, A., Nikiforova, A., Petrescu, D.I., Schindler, P., Valtenbergs, V., Lehmann, L., Framework for Understanding Quantum Computing Use Cases From A Multidisciplinary Perspective and Future Research Directions, Futures, 2023, 103277, ISSN 0016-3287, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103277, Q1 in (1) Business and International Management, (2) Development, (3) Sociology and Political Science), IF:3, CiteScore: 6.3 Lacagnina, C., David, R., Nikiforova, A., Kuusniemi, M. E., Cappiello, C., Biehlmaier, O., Wright, L., Schubert, C., Bertino, A., Thiemann, H., & Dennis, R. (2023). Towards a data quality framework for EOSC. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7515816 Wilkinson MD, Sansone SA, Méndez E., David R., Dennis R., Hecker D., Kleemola M., Lacagnina C., Nikiforova A., Castro L. (2023) Community-driven governance of FAIRness assessment: an open issue, an open discussion [version 2; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]. Open Res Europe 2023, 2:146 (https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.15364.2) Nikiforova, A., Daskevics, A. and Azeroual, O. (2023), “NoSQL Security: Can My Data-driven Decision-making Be Influenced from Outside?“, Visvizi, A., Troisi, O. and Grimaldi, M. (Ed.) Big Data and Decision-Making: Applications and Uses in the Public and Private Sector (Emerald Studies in Politics and Technology), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 59-73. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-551-920231005 Azeroual O., Nacheva R., Nikiforova A., Störl U., Fraisse A. (2023) Predictive Analytics intelligent decision-making framework and testing it through sentiment analysis on Twitter data. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 42–53. https://doi.org/10.1145/3606305.3606309 Nikiforova, A. (2023). Data Security as a Top Priority in the Digital World: Preserve Data Value by Being Proactive and Thinking Security First. In: Visvizi, A., Troisi, O., Grimaldi, M. (eds) Research and Innovation Forum 2022. RIIFORUM 2022. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19560-0_1 Chang, V., Marshall, R., Xu, Q. A., & Nikiforova, A. (2023). E-commerce assistant application incorporating machine learning image classification. International Journal of Business and Systems Research, 17(1), 1-26, https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBSR.2023.127711 Shao, D., Ishengoma, F.R., Alexopoulos, C., Saxena, S., Nikiforova, A. and Matheus, R. (2023), “Integration of IoT into e-government”, Foresight, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/FS-04-2022-0048, Q2 (Business and International Management, Economics, Econometrics and Finance), IF: 1.581, CiteScore: 3.1 O. Azeroual, A. Nikiforova and K. Sha, “Overlooked Aspects of Data Governance: Workflow Framework For Enterprise Data Deduplication,” 2023 International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS), Valencia, Spain, 2023, pp. 65-73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCNS58795.2023.10193478. Kante N., Nikiforova A., Kaleja K., Svandere A., Mežinska S., Pečulis R., Rovite V. Dynamic informed consent system, citizen science data management, quality control and integration for Latvian Genome Database, Abstracts from the 55th European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) Conference: Hybrid Posters. Eur J Hum Genet 31 (Suppl 1), 345–709 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-023-01338-4, Q1, IF:4.42 Azeroual, O., Schöpfel, J., Pölönen, J., Nikiforova, A. (2023). FAIRification of CRIS: A Review. In: Coenen, F., et al. Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. IC3K 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1842. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43471-6_13 Daase, C.; Staegemann, D.; Nikiforova, A.; Chang, V.; Hintsch, J.; Volk, M. and Turowski, K. (2023). Towards the Creation of a Holistic Video Analytics Platform for Retail Environments. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Smart Business Technologies – ICSBT; ISBN 978-989-758-667-5; ISSN 2184-772X, SciTePress, pages 216-225. DOI: 10.5220/0012148600003552 Chang V., Xiao L., Nikiforova A., Xu Q., Liu B. (2023) The Study of PGP Web of Trust Based on Social Network Analysis, International Journal of Business Information Systems, 44(2), pp.285-302, https://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJBIS.2023.134956, SNIP: 0.551, CiteScore: 1.7 (Q2 – Information Systems and Management, Management Information Systems) Bötticher A., Nikiforova A., Ruhland J., Kettemann M. (2023), Reframing Political Power in the Digital Constellation: Taking Technopolitics Seriously, Future Law Working Paper 2023-2, Department of Theory and Future of Law, University of Innsbruck, Austria 2022 Lnenicka, M., Nikiforova, A., Luterek, M., Azeroual, O., Ukpabi, D., Valtenbergs, V., Machova, R. (2022) Transparency of open data ecosystems in smart cities: definition and assessment of the maturity of transparency in 22 smart cities, Sustainable Cities and Society, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.103906, Q1, Impact Factor: 7.587, SNIP: 2.347, CiteScore: 10.7 Lněnička, M., Nikiforova, A., Saxena, S. and Singh, P. (2022), Investigation into the adoption of open government data among students: the behavioural intention-based comparative analysis of three countries, Aslib Journal of Information Management, Vol. 74 No. 3, pp. 549-567. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-08-2021-0249, Q1 (Library and Information Sciences), Impact Factor: 2.343, SNIP: 1.132, CiteScore: 3.3 Azeroual O., Schöpfel J., Pölönen J., and Nikiforova N. (2022). Putting FAIR principles in the context of research information: FAIRness for CRIS and CRIS for FAIRness. In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management – Vol. 3: KMIS, pp. 63-71. 10.5220/0011548700003335 – best paper award Nikiforova A., Zuiderwijk A. (2022) Barriers to openly sharing government data: towards an open data-adapted innovation resistance theory, In 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2022). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 215–220, https://doi.org/10.1145/3560107.3560143 – best paper award nominee Nikiforova A. (2022) Gen Z open data hackathon – civic innovation with digital natives: to hack or not to hack, In Proceedings of Ongoing Research, Practitioners, Workshops, Posters, and Projects of the International Conference EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2022, pp. 251-253, September 5-8, Linkoping, Sweden Saxena, S., Shao, D., Nikiforova, A., Thapliyal, R. (2022), Invoking blockchain technology in e-government services: a cybernetic perspective, Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, Vol. 24 No. 3, pp. 246-258. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPRG-10-2021-0128, Q2 (Information Systems and Management), SNIP: 0.705, CiteScore: 2.8 Azeroual, O., Jha, M., Nikiforova, A., Sha, K., Alsmirat, M., & Jha, S. (2022). A Record Linkage-Based Data Deduplication Framework with DataCleaner Extension. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 6(4), 27, https://doi.org/10.3390/mti6040027, SNIP: 1.63, CiteScore: 3.7 (Q2 – Computer Science Applications) Azeroual, O., Schöpfel, J., Ivanović, D., & Nikiforova, A. (2022). Combining Data Lake and Data Wrangling for Ensuring Data Quality in CRIS. Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 211, pp. 3-16, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2022.10.171 Tékouabou, Stéphane C. K., Jérôme Chenal, Rida Azmi, Hamza Toulni, El Bachir Diop, and Anastasija Nikiforova. 2022. Identifying and Classifying Urban Data Sources for Machine Learning-Based Sustainable Urban Planning and Decision Support Systems Development, Data 7, no. 12: 170. https://doi.org/10.3390/data7120170, Q2 (Information Systems and Management), SNIP: 1.128, CiteScore: 4.8 Salminen J., Mustak M., Rizun N., Revina A., Nikiforova A., Almerekhi H., Jung S., Jansen B.J. (2022) Integrating AI into Customer Service: Improving the Actionability of Customer Feedback Analysis Using Machine Learning, in Proceedings of the 4th international conference on AIRSI2022 Technologies 4.0 in Tourism, Services & Marketing (AIRSI – Artificial Intelligence, Immersive Technologies, Social Networks and Internet of Things) (web-based), July 2022 (extended abstract) Azeroual, O.; Nikiforova, A. Apache Spark and MLlib-Based Intrusion Detection System or How the Big Data Technologies Can Secure the Data. Information 2022, 13, 58, IF: 2.343, SNIP: 1.012, CiteScore: 3.0 Ishengoma, F.R., Shao, D., Alexopoulos, C., Saxena, S. and Nikiforova, A. (2022), “Integration of artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) in the public sector: drivers, barriers and future research agenda“, Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, Vol. 24 No. 5, pp. 449-462. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPRG-06-2022-0067 Nikiforova A., Rovite V., Tiwari S., Klovins J., Kante N., Evaluation and visualization of healthcare semantic models, Editor(s): Sanju Tiwari, Fernando Ortiz Rodriguez, M.A. Jabbar, In Intelligent Data-Centric Systems, Semantic Models in IoT and Ehealth Applications, Academic Press, 2022, pp. 39-68, ISBN 9780323917735, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-32-391773-5.00009-1. Chang V., Xiao L., Nikiforova A., Xu Q., Liu B. (2022) The Study of PGP Web of Trust Based on Social Network Analysis, International Journal of Business Information Systems, Q2, SNIP: 0.551, CiteScore: 1.7 (forthcoming) Lnenicka, M., Luterek, M., & Nikiforova, A. (2022). Benchmarking open data efforts through indices and rankings: Assessing development and contexts of use. Telematics and Informatics, 66, 101745, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2021.101745, Q1, Impact factor: 6.182, SNIP: 2.912, CiteScore: 13.2 Nikiforova A., Data security as a top priority in the digital world: preserve data value by being proactive and thinking security first (pre-print) submitted to Research and Innovation Forum 2022, edited by Anna Visvizi, Orlando Troisi, Mara Grimaldi, 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG (Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland) Govoruhina A., Nikiforova A. (2022) Digital health shopping assistant with React Native: a simple technological solution to a complex health problem, 2022 International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA), 2022, pp. 34-40, doi: 10.1109/IDSTA55301.2022.9923047. Kumar N., Jilani A. K., Kumar P., Nikiforova A. (2022). Improved YOLOv3-tiny Object Detector with Dilated CNN for Drone-Captured Images, In The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2022), September 5-7, 2022, San Antonio, Texas, USA, pp. 89-94, doi: 10.1109/IDSTA55301.2022.9923041. Wilkinson, M. D., Sansone, S. A., Méndez, E., David, R., Dennis, R., Hecker, D., Lacagnina, C. ., Nikiforova, A., & Castro, L. J. (2022). Community-driven Governance of FAIRness Assessment: An Open Issue, an Open Discussion. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7390482 Ukpabi, D.C., Karjaluoto, H., Botticher, A., Nikiforova, A., Petrescu, D.I., Schindler, P., Valtenbergs, V., Lehmann, L., & Yakaryılmaz, A. (2022). Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases from a multidisciplinary perspective and future research directions, 10.48550/ARXIV.2212.13909 2021 Nikiforova A. & Lnenicka M. (2021) A multi-perspective knowledge-driven approach for analysis of the demand side of the Open Government Data portal, Government Information Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 4, 2021, 101622, ISSN 0740-624X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2021.101622, Q1, Impact Factor 7.279, SNIP: 3.393, CiteScore: 11.6 Mutambik, I., Nikiforova, A., Almuqrin, A. H., Liu, D., Floos, A., Omar, T. (2021) Benefits of Open Government Data initiatives in Saudi Arabia and barriers to their implementation, Journal of Global Information Management, Q3, Impact Factor 1.55, SNIP: 0.866, CiteScore: 2.4 Daskevics, A., Nikiforova, A. (2021) IoTSE-based open database vulnerability inspection in three Baltic countries: ShoBEVODSDT sees you, The 8th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2021), December 6-9, 2021, Gandia, Spain. Nikiforova, A., Kozmina, N. (2021) Stakeholder-centred Identification of Data Quality Issues: Knowledge that Can Save Your Business, 2021 Second International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA), November 15-16, 2021. Tartu, Estonia Daskevics, A., Nikiforova, A. (2021) ShoBeVODSDT: Shodan and Binary Edge based vulnerable open data sources detection tool or what Internet of Things Search Engines know about you, 2021 Second International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA), November 15-16, 2021. Tartu, Estonia Nikiforova, A. (2021) Smarter Open Government Data for Society 5.0: Are Your Open Data Smart Enough?. Sensors. 2021; 21(15):5204, https://doi.org/10.3390/s21155204, Q1 (JCR, CiteScore), Impact factor: 3.576 (2020), SNIP: 1.555, CiteScore: 5.8 Nikiforova A. (2021) Towards enrichment of the open government data: a stakeholder-centered determination of high-value data sets for Latvia, 14th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance Proceedings (ICEGOV 2021), October 6-8, 2021, Athens, Greece, ACM, New York, NY, USA Bicevskis, J., Bicevska, Z., Karnitis, G., Nikiforova, A., Oditis, I. (2021). Analysis of Concurrent Execution of Business Processes, Baltic J. Modern Computing, Vol. 9(2021), No. 4, 466-489, https://doi.org/10.22364/bjmc.2021.9.4.06, (will be indexed in Scopus, Web of Science), Q4, SNIP: 0.524. Bicevskis J., Nikiforova A., Karnitis G., Bicevska Z., Oditis I. (2021) Risks of Concurrent Execution in E-Commerce Processes, In 2021 16th Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Nikiforova, A., & McBride, K. (2021) Open government data portal usability: A user-centred usability analysis of 41 open government data portals. Telematics and Informatics, 58, 101539, Q1, Impact factor: 6.182, SNIP: 2.912, CiteScore: 13.2 Lnenicka M., Nikiforova A. (2021) Transparency-by-design: What is the role of open data portals?, Telematics and Informatics, Volume 61, 2021, 101605, ISSN 0736-5853, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2021.101605, Q1, Impact factor: 6.182, SNIP: 2.912, CiteScore: 13.2. Marcenko I., Nikiforova A. (2021) Digitalization in Sports to Connect Child’s Sport Clubs, Parents and Kids: Simple Solution for Tackling Social and Psychological Issues. In: Cherfi S., Perini A., Nurcan S. (eds) Research Challenges in Information Science. RCIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 415. Springer, Cham, Q3, IF: 0.77. Nikiforova A., Bicevskis J., Bicevska Z., Oditis I. (2021) Data Quality Model-Based Testing of Information Systems: Two-Level Testing of the Insurance System. In: Ziemba E., Chmielarz W. (eds) Information Technology for Management: Towards Business Excellence. ISM 2020, FedCSIS-IST 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 413. Springer, Cham. Q3, IF: 0.77, SNIP: 0.493, CiteScore: 1.5 2020 Nikiforova, A., Bicevskis, J., Bicevska, Z., & Oditis, I. (2020). Data Quality Model-based Testing of Information Systems: the Use-case of E-scooters. In 2020 7th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2020) – best paper award nominee Nikiforova, A. (2020, October). Timeliness of Open Data in Open Government Data Portals Through Pandemic-related Data: a long data way from the publisher to the user. In 2020 Fourth International Conference on Multimedia Computing, Networking and Applications (MCNA) (pp. 131-138). IEEE. Nikiforova, A., Bicevskis, J., Karnitis, G. (2020). Towards a Concurrence Analysis in Business Processes. In 2020 7th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS 2020) Bicevskis, J., Bicevska, Z., Nikiforova, A., & Oditis, I. (2020, September). Data Quality Model-based Testing of Information Systems. In 2020 15th Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) (pp. 595-602). IEEE – best paper award Nikiforova, A. (2020). Comparative analysis of national open data portals or whether your portal is ready to bring benefits from open data. In IADIS International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings (pp. 21-23). Nikiforova, A. (2020). Assessment of the usability of Latvia’s open data portal or how close are we to gaining benefits from open data. In IADIS 14th International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (pp. 51-28). Nikiforova, A. (2020). Definition and Evaluation of Data Quality: User-Oriented Data Object-Driven Approach to Data Quality Assessment. Baltic Journal of Modern Computing, 8(3), 391-432, Q4, SNIP: 0.524 Nikiforova, A., & Bicevskis, J. (2020). Towards a Business Process Model-based Testing of Information Systems Functionality. In ICEIS (2) (pp. 322-329). Nikiforova, A., Bicevskis, J., Bicevska, Z., & Oditis, I. (2020). User-Oriented Approach to Data Quality Evaluation. J. UCS, 26(1), 107-126, Q2, Impact factor: 0.91; SNIP: 0.67, CiteScore: 2.0 2019 Bicevskis, J., Nikiforova, A., Bicevska, Z., Oditis, I., & Karnitis, G. (2019, October). A Step Towards a Data Quality Theory. In 2019 Sixth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS) (pp. 303-308). IEEE. Bicevskis, J., Bicevska, Z., Nikiforova, A., & Oditis, I. (2019, September). Towards Data Quality Runtime Verification. In 2019 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) (pp. 639-643). Nikiforova, A. (2019). Analysis of Open Health Data Quality Using Data Object-Driven Approach to Data Quality Evaluation: Insights from a Latvian Context. In IADIS International Conference e-Health (pp. 119-126). Nikiforova, A., & Bicevskis, J. (2019). An Extended Data Object-driven Approach to Data Quality Evaluation: Contextual Data Quality Analysis. In ICEIS (1) (pp. 274-281). 2018 Bicevskis, J., Bicevska, Z., Nikiforova, A., & Oditis, I. (2018, October). An Approach to Data Quality Evaluation. In 2018 Fifth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS) (pp. 196-201). IEEE. Bicevskis, J., Bicevska, Z., Nikiforova, A., & Oditis, I. (2018). Data quality evaluation: a comparative analysis of company registers’ open data in four European countries. In FedCSIS (Communication Papers) (pp. 197-204). Nikiforova, A., & Bicevska, Z. (2018). Application of LEAN Principles to Improve Business Processes: a Case Study in Latvian IT Company. Baltic Journal of Modern Computing, 6(3), 247-270. Nikiforova, A. (2018). Open Data Quality Evaluation: A Comparative Analysis of Open Data in Latvia. Baltic Journal of Modern Computing, 6(4), 363-386. Nikiforova, A. (2018). Open Data Quality, CEUR.
Academic work	Systems Modelling – 6 ECTS (master and doctoral student programmes) Business Process Management – 6 ECTS (master and doctoral student programmes) Master’s thesis supervisor Bachelor’s thesis supervisor   Courses & workshops delivered in the past: Open government data in a data-driven world – 3 ECTS (master and doctoral student programmes), Databases II (in Latvian) – 3 ECTS, Databases II (in English) – 3 ECTS, Seminar I, II, III, IV (“Open data and data quality“) – 3 ECTS Software Engineering (practical labs, foreign students – in English) – 9 ECTS Databases and Information Systems Fundamentals (practices, foreign students – in English) – 4.5 ECTS Bachelor’s thesis (and other undergraduate thesis) advisor – 19 theses (see the list here) Guest Lecture (2023) “Data Quality for AI or AI for Data quality: advances in Data Quality Management for the success and sustainability of emerging technologies, business and society“, the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) (Norway, web-based), November Guest Lecture (2023) “Open Data Ecosystems in and for sustainable development of data-driven smart cities and Society 5.0“, the Federal University of Technology – Parana (UTFPR, Brazil), May 16 Guest Lecture (2022) “Open data as a catalyst for collaborative, data-driven smart cities and smart society: what is the key to success?”, the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) (Norway, web-based), September Guest Lecture (2022) “The role of open data in the development of sustainable smart cities and smart society“, the Federal University of Technology – Parana (UTFPR, Brazil), May 5 Guest Lecture (2021) “Open data: ecosystem, current and future trends, success stories and barriers“, the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) (Norway, web-based), October 25 Guest Lecture (2021) “Open data potential“, LU Faculty of Social Sciences/ Institute for Social and Political Studies, Latvia, October 4 Lecture “From databases to Business Intelligence and data quality” delivered to participants of the School of Excellence (in collaboration with the youth Foundation “Vertical” (“Vertikāle”)), 2020 Lecture “Open data: ecosystem, use-case, potential advantages and open questions” delivered to participants of the School of Excellence (in collaboration with the youth Foundation “Vertical” (“Vertikāle”)), 2021 Mentor for Latvian open data hackathon for pupils 2020, organizers: National Centre for Education Republic of Latvia and Latvian Open technology Association Mentor for Latvian open data hackathon for pupils 2021 Expert for the “Idea Laboratory 2021” in scope of the Emerging Technologies and Innovations Days of University of Latvia 2021 Mentor for Latvian open data hackathon for pupils 2022 Mentor for Latvian open data hackathon for pupils 2023 Lecture “Open Data: State of the Art and Open Issues in the Context of the Four Intelligences Paradigm” delivered to participants of the School of Excellence (in collaboration with the youth Foundation “Vertical” (“Vertikāle”)), 2023
Science and research projects	2021-2021: H2020_Integromed “Integration of knowledge and biobank resources in comprehensive translational approach for personal prevention and treatment of metabolic disorders” (857572), Horizon2020, database programmer 2021-2022: DECIDE “Development of a dynamic informed consent system for biobank and citizen science data management, quality control and integration”, ERDF funded, volunteer/ IT-expert 1/01/2021 – 1/10/2021 Research Nr. 1.15. “Optimizing e-mobility solutions using artificial intelligence” (the IT Competence Centre project in collaboration with industry), ERDF volunteer/ Researcher (Dr.). 5/11/2020-3/12/2020: SAM 8.3.2.1/16/I/002 “Improvement of support of educational institutions for development of individual competencies of students”, ESF expert 1/04/2020 – 1/10/2021: Research Nr. 1.6. “Analysis of concurrency in business process models” (the IT Competence Centre project in collaboration with industry), ERDF Researcher (Dr.).  1/10/2019 – 31/03/2020 Research Nr. 1.7. “Use of business process models for complete testing of information systems functionality” (the IT Competence Centre project in collaboration with industry), ERDF Researcher (Dr.).  1/08/2017 – 1/05/2018 Research Nr. 1.8. “Data quality management by executable business process models” (The IT Competence Centre project in collaboration with industry). ERDF, volunteer/ scientific assistant.
Editorial membership	Editorial Board Member for International Journal of Information Management (IJIM), SJR Q1, ABDC: A*, IF 21 Editorial Board Member for BMC Research Notes (Springer Nature), SNIP: 0.941, CiteScore: 2.6, SJR: 0.608 (Open Access) Editorial Board Member for eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM), SNIP: 0.232, CiteScore: 1.1, SJR: 0.135 (Open Access) Area Editor: Cambridge Press, Data & Policy (Open Access) Associate Editor for the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) (IGI Global), SNIP: 0.694, CiteScore: 4.0, SJR: 0.32 (Open Access) Guest Editor for Special Issue in the Cambridge Press, Data & Policy “Emerging Data- and Policy-driven Approaches for African Cities Challenges” (Open Access) Invited reviewer for high-quality journals: Elsevier, Technological Forecasting and Social Change (IF: 8.593 (2022)); Elsevier, Government Information Quarterly (Impact Factor: 5.098 (2019)); Elsevier, Technology in Society (Impact Factor: 6.879); Elsevier, Cities (IF: 6.7); Springer, Soft Computing (IF: 4.1); Elsevier, Heliyon (IF: 4) Profesional de la Informacion (IF: 3.29); International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJAI) (IF: 3.81) Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (IF: 1.9 (2023)); Taylor & Francis, Cybernetics and Systems (IF: 1.859) Taylor & Francis, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHC) (IF: 4.920 (2021)) IEEE Access (Impact Factor: 3.74 (2019)); Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (IF: 2.11) Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research (JSIR) (IF: 0.55); Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management (JSTPM) (IF: 0.588); Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ) (IF: 0.733); Springer, Archives of Public Health (IF: 0.98); Emerald Publishing journal, Online Information Review (IF: 2.59 (2020)); Springer Nature, Scientific Data (IF: 9.051); Emerald Information and Learning Sciences (Impact Factor: 1.5 (2020)); Emerald Publishing, Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance (IF: 2.01 (2020)); Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (IF: 1.831 (2021)); Emerald Publishing journal, Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (IF: 2.317 (2020)); Springer, BMC Research Notes (Springer Nature) (Impact Factor: 1.66); Springer, Journal of Chinese Political Science (Impact Factor: 1.694 (2020)) ACM, Transactions on Internet Technology (Impact Factor: 3.75 (2020)).
Organizational responsibilities	2024 – organizational committee member EGOV2024 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2024, co-chair of “Emerging Issues and Innovations” track (chairs: Anastasija Nikiforova, Marijn Janssen and Francesco Mureddu) 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2024) “Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance“, chair of “Sustainable public and open data ecosystems” track (chairs: Anastasija Nikiforova , Anthony Simonofski, Anneke Zuiderwijk, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar IDSTA2022 – The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (publicity chair) 2024 – technical committee member RiiForum2024 – Research and Innovation Forum 2024 “The twin transition: leveraging breakthrough technologies and sustainability for innovation, quality education, and policy making” – academic committee Data for Policy 2024 “Decoding the Future: Trustworthy Governance with AI?” (Imperial College London and Cambridge University Press) – Area 1: Digital & Data-Driven Transformation in Governance track committee BIR 2024 – 23rd International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research – program committee IDSTA2022 – The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications – technical program committee e-Society 2024 – 22nd International Conference on e-Society (ES 2024) – program committee iLRN2024 – 10th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network – Tech4Good – program committee 2023 – organizational committee member EGOV2023 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2023, “Emerging issues and innovations” track co-chair & session chair EGOV2023 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2023, “PPPS’2023 – Proactive and Personalised Public Services: Searching for Meaningful Human Control in Algorithmic Government” workshop organizer & chair 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2023), Together in the unstable world: Digital government and solidarity, – “Identification of high value dataset determinants: is there a silver bullet for efficient sustainability-oriented data-driven development?” workshop, 11-14 July 2023, Gdańsk, Poland ICCNS2023 – International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services – steering committee, Technical Program committee, publicity chair CCGRID2023 – The 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Data Systems Management, Engineering, and Analytics (MegaData) in conjunction with the 23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing – publicity chair, PC member FMEC 2023 – The Eighth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing – publicity chair, session chair CBDCom 2023 – IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing – publicity chair EGETC2023 – Electronic Governance with Emerging Technologies Conference – program committee   ICSC2023 – The Third Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference, USA iMETA2023 & FMEC2023 – The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications) in conjunction with the The Eighth IEEE International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) – publicity chair 2023 – technical committee member EGOV2023 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2023 in conjunction with 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research I3E2023 – 22nd IFIP Conference – e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, Curitiba, Brazil iLRN2023 – 9th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network ICT2023 – International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings (ICT) part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS2023) IHCI2023 – International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI) part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS2023) AMCIS2023 – 29th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS). organized by Association for Information Systems (AIS), Panama RiiForum2023 – Research and Innovation Forum 2023, ACC2023 – African Cities Conference (ACC) – Digital Cities, Cotonou, Benin CCGRID2023 – The 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Data Systems Management, Engineering, and Analytics (MegaData) in conjunction with the 23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing IETC2023 – Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing Conference (i-ETC) – Innovations & Solutions for Today’s Challenges EGETC2023 – Electronic Governance with Emerging Technologies Conference 2023 ICSC2023 – The Third Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference, USA 2022 – organizational committee member ICEGOV2022 – 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance: “Digital Governance for Social, Economic, and Environmental Prosperity” – workshop organizer and chair EGETC2022 – Electronic Governance with Emerging Technologies  Conference – general chair Data for Policy 2022: ecosystem of innovation and virtual-physical interaction – area editor, PC member IDSTA2022 – The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2022) – publicity chair, PC member RiiForum2022 – Research and Innovation Forum 2022, organizer of the panel “Security of data storage facilities: is your database sufficiently protected?” 2022 – technical committee member EGOV2022 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2022 in conjunction with 23rd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Data for Policy 2022: Ecosystems of innovation and virtual-physical interactions ADBIS2022 – 26th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, 2nd Workshop on Advances Data Systems Management, Engineering & Analytics EGETC2022 – Electronic Governance with Emerging Technologies  Conference ICT2022 – International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings (ICT) part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems IHCI2022 – International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction” (IHCI) part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems IDSTA2022 – The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications CSAE2022 – The 6th International Conference on Computer Science and Application Engineering RiiForum2022 – Research and Innovation Forum 2022 iLRN2022 – The International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN), USA FedCSIS2022 / ISM2022 – Conference on Information Systems Management (ISM), part of the Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS) ESWC 2022 – International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation from Text (Text2KG) co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference KGSWC2022 – Iberoamerican Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web 2021 – organizational committee member IDSTA2021 – The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2021) – publicity chair and session chair DTL2021 – The Fourth International Workshop on Deep and Transfer Learning – publicity chair COMPandemics2021 – The Second International Workshop on Computing for Pandemics – publicity 2021 – technical committee member EGOV2021 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2021 in conjunction with 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research”, Spain IWDLQ2021 – International Workshop on Deep Learning for Question Answering, USA ICT2021 – 14th International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings” in conjunction with 15th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Croatia KGSWC2021 – Iberoamerican Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web, USA ISAIC2021 – The 2021 International Symposium on Automation, Information and Computing, China iLRN2021 – The International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN), USA IDSTA2021 – The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2021) SOTICS2021 – The Eleventh International Conference on Social Media Technologies, Communication, and Informatics (SOTICS 2021), Spain IoTBDS – The International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security, Czech IEEE CCN-CPS 2021 – IEEE International Conference on Communications, WS-17: Workshop on Communication, Computing, and Networking in Cyber-Physical Systems, Canada 2020 – technical committee member ISAIC2020 – The 2020 International Symposium on Automation, Information and Computing, China IDSTA2020 – The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2020), Spain DTL2020 – The Third International Workshop on Deep and Transfer Learning, Spain SOTICS2020 – The Tenth International Conference on Social Media Technologies, Communication, and Informatics (SOTICS 2020), Portugal EGOV2020 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2020 part of 21st Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Sweden (web-based) iLRN 2020: 6th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network, USA DSEA2019: The Third International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications (DSEA 2019) – The Sixth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS-2019), Spain 2020 – organizational committee member IDSTA2020 – The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2020), Spain – publicity chair MCNA2020 – The Fourth International Conference on Multimedia Computing, Networking and Applications (MCNA2020), Spain – publicity chair DTL2020 – The Fourth International Workshop on Deep and Transfer Learning – publicity chair COMPandemics2020 – The Second International Workshop on Computing for Pandemics – publicity chair ESSLLI2020 – 31st European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Latvia Session chair EGOV2023 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2023, co-chair of “Emerging Issues and Innovations” track The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications) in conjunction with the The Eighth IEEE International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) Moderator of the panel for RiiForum2023 – Research and Innovation Forum 2023 ICCNS2023 – International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services “Big Data and Analytics” session chair for “14th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Systems” (KMIS2022) “Knowledge management Strategies and Implementations”session chair for “14th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Systems” (KMIS2022) Session chair for the “International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications” (IDSTA2022) Moderator of the panel for RiiForum2022 – Research and Innovation Forum 2022 Session chair for the “International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications” (IDSTA2021) – 2 sessions Session chair “User studies and fieldwork” for “14th International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction” (IHCI2020) Session chair (Globalization and ICT) for “13th International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings” (ICT2020) Session chair (Desirable goals and ICT) for “13th International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings” (ICT2020)
Awards	2022: KMIS2022 Best Paper Award, 14th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Systems 2022: ICEGOV2022 Best Paper Awards Nominee, 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance: “Digital Governance for Social, Economic, and Environmental Prosperity” 2022: Research & Innovation Forum (Rii Forum 2022) Panel Moderation Award as the recognition of the academic merit, quality of moderation, scheduling, and discussion held during the panel “Business in the era of pervasive digitalization” 2021: LATA (Latvian Open Technologies Association) award 2020 for promotion of open data and open technologies 2020: FedCSIS2020/ ISM2020 Best Paper Award for the “Data Quality Model-based Testing of Information System”, 15th Conference on Information Systems Management (ISM’2020) 2020: IoTSMS2020 Best paper nominee, “Data Quality Model-based Testing of Information Systems: the Use-case of E-scooters”, The 7th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security 2019: Nominee for WDS Data Stewardship Award 2019 as one of the most exceptional contributors of early career researchers to the improvement of scientific data stewardship. 2019: Winner of the best Master’s Thesis in Computer Science of the year ZIBIT 2019. 2018: Lady Ada Lovelace Award to the best female computer science student in Latvia for active and productive work, as well as promotion of the field of computer science. 2018-2019 and 2017-2018: Emergn (previously Exigen Services Latvia) and Riga Technical University Development Fund Excellence Scholarship to the most outstanding students of Latvia in the field of IT.
Courses and certifications	• The 9th International Summer School On Open and Collaborative Governance (opengov2022) (organized by the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean) • DeepLearn 2022 Summer School (organized by Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Brussels/London, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili) • Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) DelftX & edX platform online MOOC “Open Science: Sharing Your Research with the World” (2021) • Open University, online course “Introduction to Cyber Security” (2015) • Enisa workshop/ course “Artifact Analysis and Digital Forensics” (2015)
Associations	Task Force member, “FAIR Metrics and Data Quality”, EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) IFIP WG8.5 on ICT and Public Administration EDSC ambassador (European Digital Skills Certificate, as part of Action 9 of the Digital Education Action Plan (2021- 2027) – JRC/SVQ/2022/OP/0013) Expert of the Latvian Council of Sciences (The Latvian Academy of Sciences) – Engineering and Technology-Electrical Engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering Expert of the Latvian Council of Sciences (The Latvian Academy of Sciences) – Social Sciences – Economics and Business COST Expert (European cooperation in Science & Technology) Associate member of Latvian Open Technology Association BBMRI-ERIC Quality Management Services for Basic and Applied Research (BBMRI.QM), representative of BBMRI Latvian National Node (2021-2022) Expert of the Latvian Council of Sciences (The Latvian Academy of Sciences) – Natural Sciences – Computer and information sciences (2021-2024)