Rudolf Maculan

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Strategic Management and Innovation
WEV H 308
Weinbergstrasse 56/58
8092 Zürich
Switzerland

 

Phone:  +41 44 632 98 50
E-Mail: rudolfm@ethz.ch

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SHORT BIO

Rudolf is a research associate and doctoral student at the Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation at ETH Zurich. He is also a Research Associate at the Strategy and Artificial Intelligence Lab and an Associated PhD Student at ETH AI Center. His PhD project is on the use of Artificial Intelligence in People Analytics in collaboration with UBS AG. 

Prior to this position, he worked as a Consulting Manager at Accenture focusing on Cyber Security, where he gained extensive experience in Big Data analytics for security use cases and Cloud Engineering. 

He received a Master's degree in Management, Technology, and Economics and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering both from ETH Zurich. He is a regular guest lecturer on Adversarial AI, covering risks posed by deepfakes and LLMs.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Causal Machine Learning

- The impact of Artificial Intelligence on organizations and industries

- Data-driven decision-making and strategy

- Explaibable AI

 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Cristina Kadar, Rudolf Maculan, Stefan Feuerriegel, Public decision support for low population density areas: An imbalance-aware hyper-ensemble for spatio-temporal crime prediction, Decision Support Systems, Volume 119, 2019, Pages 107-117, ISSN 0167-9236, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2019.03.001. external page Read

WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS

  • Academy of Management Journal, Paper Development Workshop, 03.05.2024 10-page Extended Abstract

MASTER THESIS SUPERVISION

I am always welcoming students to discuss thesis topics/projects. If you're interested in writing your thesis on a topic related to the AI in decision making, feel free to contact me after going through the details mentioned on this page: Documents for writing a Master Thesis at SMI

 

REVIEWING EXPERIENCE

 

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Fall 2024

- Industry and Competitive Analysis, Assistant to Dr. Patrick Tinguely

- Management Research  

Fall 2023

- Industry and Competitive Analysis, Assistant to Dr. Patrick Tinguely 

- Management Research

Spring 2023

- Guest Lecturer in Cyber Security by Dr. Stefan Frei

Spring 2022

- Guest Lecturer in Cyber Security by Dr. Stefan Frei

Spring 2021

- Guest Lecturer in Cyber Security by Dr. Stefan Frei