Research
A voracious appetite for high-impact research
My research uses statistics, machine learning, and applied analytics to study hospitality, tourism, gaming, and education.
Research map
My research applies AI and data science to hospitality and gaming contexts
Papers
I have published in leading journals across multiple disciplines
Building a Brief Multidomain Questionnaire for Gambling Dual Disorder: Psychometric Validation and RDoC-Based Dimensional Structure
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
Characterising online gamblers exceeding financial risk thresholds in the UK
Public Health
Interpretable behavioral clusters of gamblers through unsupervised learning
Acta Psychologica
A systematic review of machine learning applications in hotel occupancy forecasting
European Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation
Across the bettor-verse: An open banking perspective on gambling in the United Kingdom
Journal of Gambling Studies
Measurement invariance of the Problem Gambling Severity Index
International Gambling Studies
Towards explainable artificial intelligence in machine learning
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Machine learning in hospitality: Interpretable forecasting of booking cancellations
IEEE Access
Research
I have presented at conferences far and wide
19th International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking
Las Vegas, Nevada
Quantifying luck: Determining the probability of baccarat wins given player bet mix
2025 GLI Regulator Roundtable
Las Vegas, Nevada
Characterizing UK online gamblers exceeding financial risk thresholds
14th European Conference on Gambling Studies and Policy Issues
Rome, Italy
An ordinal categorical variable approach to assessing measurement invariance using the theta parameterization for MG-CFA
Webinar on Safer Gambling: Insights from Leading Researchers & Applicability
Valletta, Malta
Detection of customer transaction decline using machine learning
2023 Hawkes Learning Innovative Educators Summit
Virtual
Teaching statistics in hospitality using R
26th ICRG Conference on Gambling and Addiction
Las Vegas, Nevada
Interpretable behavioral clusters of gamblers through unsupervised learning
EuroCHRIE Conference 2024
Doha, Qatar
Interpretable forecasting of booking cancellations with stacked generalization
Nevada Annual State Conference on Problem Gambling
Las Vegas, Nevada
An assessment of the measurement invariance of the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI)
International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking
Las Vegas, Nevada
Predicting declined transactions in gambling payments data
2023 West Federation of Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education
Las Vegas, Nevada
Predicting cancellations in bookings using machine learning
Madrid, Spain
Avanzando en la ética y la gobernanza de la IA en el sector del juego: Un piloto de traducción de investigación
25th ICRG Conference on Gambling and Addiction
Las Vegas, Nevada
Clustering slot machine players using session-level transaction data
6th Annual RevME Hospitality Management and Analytics Conference
Nashville, Tennessee
Machine learning prediction of hotel room demand
Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum
Las Vegas, Nevada
Teaching statistics in hospitality
