Bart Baesens is a professor of Big Data and Analytics at KU Leuven, Belgium and a lecturer at the University of Southampton. He has done extensive research on big data and analytics, credit risk modeling, fraud detection and marketing analytics. He has written more than 200 scientific papers some of which have been published in well-known international journals (e.g. MIS Quarterly, Machine Learning, Management Science, MIT Sloan Management Review and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering) and presented at international top conferences (e.g. ICIS, KDD, CAISE). He received various best paper and best speaker awards. Bart is the author of 6 books: Credit Risk Management: Basic Concepts (2009), Analytics in a Big Data World (2014), Beginning Java Programming (2015), Fraud Analytics using Descriptive, Predictive and Social Network Techniques (2015), Credit Risk Analytics (2016) and Profit-Driven Business Analytics (2017). He sold more than 15.000 copies of these books worldwide, some of which have been translated in Chinese, Russian and Korean.