MEET THE BSBI TEAM

Dr. Elif Yurdakul is a marketing scholar, educator, and entrepreneur dedicated to shaping the next generation of innovative business leaders.

Farzad Karimi is a Lecturer in Digital Marketing at the Berlin School of Business and Innovation, where he teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Business and Marketing.

Dr Benjamin Bensam Sambiri holds a Doctorate in Business Administration and has over 20 years of experience in managing corporate organisations and higher education institutions. His areas of expertise include lecturing, research, financial management, marketing, business administration, ICT, and human resource development.

Dr Abdelaziz Triki is a computer scientist specialising in machine learning, computer vision, and image processing. His doctoral research was conducted as part of a collaborative project between the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) in Leipzig, in partnership with the University of Sfax. His work focused on developing advanced AI methodologies for data-driven analysis. Dr Triki has extensive experience across both academia and the technology industry, contributing significantly to AI-driven innovations in healthcare.

Dr Ahmed Mahmoud is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics at the Berlin School of Business and Innovation (BSBI). He is a dedicated and methodical academic professional with over ten years of teaching experience in logistics, supply chain management, project management, and research methods.

Dr. Akua Bobson is a passionate scholar and educator whose work bridges the worlds of literature, identity, and culture. Holding a PhD in English Literature from the University of Ghana and a Master’s Degree from the Ruprecht-Karls Universität (Heidelberg), her research explores how “Africa” manifests in diaspora literary texts through an interdisciplinary lens. Her academic interests encompass comparative and postcolonial literature, with a particular focus on Afro-Caribbean narratives and the intersections of literature and history across the African diaspora.

Dr Benedetta Piccio is a feminist researcher who obtained her PhD from Edinburgh Napier University in 2024. Her doctoral research focused on women’s leadership, gender equality, and working conditions at the Edinburgh Festivals.

Dr Fahmid Al Farid is a Lecturer at the Berlin School of Business & Innovation (BSBI), Germany, where he leads teaching and research in computer vision and artificial intelligence, specialising in image and video analysis. With over 12 years of academic and research experience, he has developed a strong career that includes positions as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Multimedia University, Malaysia, and Research Assistant at both the University of Ulsan and Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea.

Dr. İlter Aktas is a Lecturer at BSBI, Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics. He holds a Ph.D. in Energy Systems Engineering from Gazi University and an M.Sc. in Energy and Sustainability with Electrical Power Engineering from the University of Southampton, both fully funded by a national scholarship. Prior to joining BSBI, he worked for a decade at Siirt University, where he taught and conducted research in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.