Ariana Polyviou
Lecturer
ariana.polyviou@cut.ac.cy
25002907
Ariana Polyviou is a Lecturer at the Department of Management, Entrepreneurship and Digital Business. She holds a PhD in Management of Information Systems (Athens University of Economic and Business), MSc in Human-Computer Interaction (University College London) and BEng in Computer Science (University of York). Previously she has served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Nicosia, Adjunct Professor at IE Business School and visiting researcher at the LSE. She has received several awards and scholarships for her research, including a the AIS Mid-Career Award and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship.
Research Activities
Her research focuses on the business and social impact of technology including human-centered AI, metaverse, cloud computing and blockchain and emphasizing on topics relevant to digital innovation and entrepreneurship, digital business strategy, digital transformation, technology policy and technology adoption. Her work has been published in journals including Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, Information Systems Frontiers and others. She has attracted funding and served as a principal investigator or co-principal institutional investigator in 20+ research projects funded by the European Commission and she has served as an evaluator for research proposals of the European. She is currently co-principal investigator of a network of 17 doctoral candidates on the topic of metaverse for business and social value.
Service
She has been a guest editor for various special issues in journals and she served as Program Co-chair, Track Chair and Associate Editor of AIS-affiliated conferences (e.g., ICIS, ECIS, MCIS) over multiple years. She is a member of Cyprus’ national committee of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). In the past she has served as a member of Cyprus’ national committee of the Digital Championship and a mentor in multiple entrepreneurship centers and incubators in Cyprus and Greece as well as a committee member of several startup competitions.
