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Meriem Benyahya and Nicola Gnecco receive the 2024 GSEM Young Researcher Award

Dr. Meriem Benyahya and Dr. Nicola Gnecco were selected as the co-recipients of the 2024 GSEM Young Researcher Award. This award was created in 2019 to promote research within the Geneva School of Economics and Management.

The annual award is given to a听young researcher affiliated to the GSEM who has made a meaningful research contribution. The award recognizes the quality and the influence of the research in the fields of economics, econometrics, finance, management, statistics, and information systems. The Review Committee is chaired by the Vice Dean for Research, Professor Salvatore Di Falco, and is made up of the members of the GSEM Honorary Council.听This year, two applications were particularly outstanding; the committee thus wished to award this prize to two researchers.

Meriem Benyahya received the award for the article "."听The study examines cybersecurity risks and data privacy concerns in Automated City Shuttles (ACSs). While ACSs enhance mobility in smart cities, their driverless technologies introduce new vulnerabilities. The article analyzes these threats from technical and legal perspectives and highlights recent standards to mitigate risks while maximizing the benefits of ACSs.

Meriem Benyahya holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the 玉美人传媒. She is contributing to the research undertaken at the GSEM鈥檚 Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science in her position as a Postdoctoral Researcher.

As for Nicola Gnecco, he was honored for his article "." The study presents extremal random forest (ERF), a method that improves predictions for extreme quantiles. Unlike traditional methods, ERF combines random forests with extreme value theory to handle limited data and extreme quantiles. The results show that ERF outperforms classical techniques, especially in predicting extreme U.S. wage data.

Nicola Gnecco holds a Ph.D in Statistics from the 玉美人传媒. He has contributed to the research undertaken at the GSEM鈥檚 former Research Center for Statistics as a Research Assistant until August 2022.

> For more information on the awards and nominations received by the GSEM faculty, please听click here.

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