Afshin Ashofteh is invited lecturer at the NOVA Information Management School. He has a master's degree in Mathematical Statistics (2001), an MBA in Finance (2008), a post-graduation degree in Statistical Systems (2014) followed by a PhD in Information Management specializing in Statistics and Econometrics at NOVA IMS. He is certified by TÜV NORD for Risk Management and Internal Audit of Information Security Management System (ISMS). Before joining NOVA IMS, his professional path includes 5 years' experience of teaching as a full time university lecturer and 12 years' experience in applying Econometrics and Statistics to problems in risk, actuaries and official statistics as a data analyst. His scientific interests have focused on Data Science in Finance and implementation of predictive models in the area of Banking and Actuaries. Recently, his presentation of a paper about credit scoring by using non-traditional datasets, jointly written by Jorge Bravo and affiliated with NOVA IMS, was the winner of the first prize of the International Conference of Risk Analysis in Austria.