I am a former Marine officer and a current Assistant Professor in Shipping Economics and Analytics at the Business and Management Science Department of the Norwegian School of Economics. I am also affiliated with the Centre for Shipping and Logistics where I work under the sponsorship of the Climate Futures project under the Centre for Research-based Innovation (SFI).
My current research interests are shipping digitalization and management, machine learning, big data handling, data science applications for the UNSDGs, maritime informatics, and operations research.
Research Papers
The effects of waiting times on the bunkering decision for tramp ships. Maritime Transport Research. 2024
Greenhouse gas mitigation at maritime chokepoints: The case of the Panama Canal. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. 2023.
Generating bunkering statistics from AIS data: A machine learning approach. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. 2021.
A spatial framework for extracting Suez Canal transit information from AIS. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)
Work in Progress/Under journals’ review
An empirical analysis of anticorruption efforts: The case of collective action in the Suez Canal
Predicting Panama Canal Water times with integrated climate data
Selected Conference Talks
June 2023. Sustainability Research + Innovation Congress 2023. Winner of the Innovative Idea for Carbon Removal at the Idea Market Competition. Pitch video link.
February 2023. Maritime Decarbonization. An event organized by the Maritime Technological Cooperation Centre Latin America, IMO Cares, and IMO.
January 2022. Mobilizing Big Data and Data Science for the Sustainable Development Goals. Invited expert to the Dubai Expo 2020 by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics (UN-CEBD). United Arab Emirates. Session link.
December 2021. Bunker management for tramp ships with stochastic fuel prices and stochastic waiting times. IAME 2021 Rotterdam, Netherlands. PPT Link
November 2021. Taking bunkering into the 21st century: Generating industry statistics from AIS data. Maritime Bergen Leadership 2021. Bergen, Norway. PPT Link. & Video demonstration.
October 2020. The Panama Canal and Suez Canal transit information from AIS. “Road to Bern” Event for the 3rd United Nations World Data Forum. Bern, Switzerland. Webinar. Link here
June, 2020. Generating bunkering statistics from AIS data: A machine learning approach. IAME 2020 Hong Kong. Online conference. Link here
Teaching
Lecturer:
2022-2023. Shipping Economics and Analytics. Master’s course at the Norwegian School of Economics. Course responsible
2021. Commodity Trading and Transport. Master’s course at the Norwegian School of Economics. Guest Lecturer. Course responsible: Roar Ådland
2018. Structure of Maritime Transport. Bachelor of Nautical Science at the International Maritime University of Panama (UMIP). Course responsible.
2015. Tankers operations. Bachelor of Nautical Science at the International Maritime University of Panama (UMIP). Course responsible.
Teacher Assistant:
2019-2021. Algorithms and Computer Programming with Python. Bachelor’s course at the Norwegian School of Economics. Course responsible: Julio Cesar Goez.
2020-2021. Sustainable Energy. Master’s course at the Norwegian School of Economics. Course responsible: Sturla Kvamsdal/ Mario Blásquez de Paz
4. Panama Maritime Emissions Dashboard
Dashboard with efficiency and environmental indicators at the Panama maritime cluster