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Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
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Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Data analytics for business applications
  • Social media analytics
  • Machine learning and AI

Available to supervise research students

Available for media queries

About Maria Prokofieva

Dr Maria Prokofieva is a senior lecturer at Victoria University Business School. She has also held academic positions at La Trobe University and Monash University, Australia.

She has a Bachelor in IT and Graduate Certificate in Accounting and her PhD is in the area of Business Information Systems (Russia).

With background in IT and Business. Maria is a quantitative researcher. Her areas of interest are:

  • data analytics
  • social media analytics
  • business intelligence and machine learning.

She is also interested in investigating in business application of data analytics and machine learning/AI.

Her outstanding work has appeared in top-tier outlets of the field, such as:

  • Journal of the Association for Information Systems
  • Journal of Information Systems
  • Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
  • Issues in Accounting Education.

Maria is passionate about using R/Python in academic research and everyday life. 

She is a member of:

  • Women Who Code
  • R Ladies Melbourne
  • Melbourne Users of R Network (MelbURN)
  • Melbourne Women in Machine Learning
  • Data Science and Data Science Melbourne.

She is also a Women in Data Science (WiDS) Ambassador.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (IT), Russia
  • Bachelor (Education), Russia
  • Master (IT), Russia
  • PhD (IS/Business), Russia
  • GradCert (Accounting), La Trobe, Australia

Key publications

Year Citation
2024 Prokofieva, M. (241009). COLLABORATIVE ARRANGEMENTS IN DEVELOPING SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS STRATEGIES: LITERATURE REVIEW (pp. 229-252).

doi: 10.1108/S2754-586520240000003012

2024 Prokofieva, M. (241009). Collaborative arrangements in developing successful business strategies: literature review In Pratap, Singh. (Ed.) (pp. na-na). na: Emerald Publishing Limited.

Year Citation
2024 Hein, K., Burleigh, T. L., Gorman, A., Prokofieva, M., & Stavropoulos, V. (241201). Proteus effect avatar profiles: Associations with disordered gaming and activity levels. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 20

doi: 10.1016/j.abrep.2024.100562

2024 Alhazmi, A. HJ., Islam, S., & Prokofieva, M. (240901). The Impact of Changing External Auditors, Auditor Tenure, and Audit Firm Type on the Quality of Financial Reports on the Saudi Stock Exchange. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 17(9),

doi: 10.3390/jrfm17090407

2024 Nagano, H., Prokofieva, M., Asogwa, C. O., Sarashina, E., & Begg, R. (240801). A Machine Learning Model for Predicting Critical Minimum Foot Clearance (MFC) Heights. Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 14(15),

doi: 10.3390/app14156705

2024 Dowd, B., Hein, K., Diez, S. L., Prokofieva, M., Kannis-Dymand, L., & Stavropoulos, V. (240201). Cross-Addiction Risk Profile Associations with COVID-19 Anxiety: a Preliminary Exploratory Study. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 22(1), (106-129).

doi: 10.1007/s11469-022-00862-6

2024 Alharasis, E. E., Prokofieva, M., Clark, C., Haddad, H., & Alramahi, N. (240101). The development of international accounting and auditing standards for fair value accounting in the Arab Middle East, Jordan: a systematic review. Cogent Business and Management, 11(1),

doi: 10.1080/23311975.2024.2391564

2024 Vysotskaya, A., & Prokofieva, M. (240101). Management accounting and data analytics: technology acceptance from the educational perspective. Accounting Education,

doi: 10.1080/09639284.2024.2338140

2023 Stavropoulos, V., Zarate, D., Prokofieva, M., van, de., Karimi, L., Alesi, A. G., Richards, M., Bennet, S., & Griffiths, M. D. (231222). Deep learning(s) in gaming disorder through the user-avatar bond: A longitudinal study using machine learning. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 12(4), (878-894).

doi: 10.1556/2006.2023.00062

2023 Zarate, D., Ball, M., Prokofieva, M., Kostakos, V., & Stavropoulos, V. (231201). Identifying self-disclosed anxiety on Twitter: A natural language processing approach. Psychiatry Research, 330

doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115579

Research funding for the past 5 years

Please note:

  • Funding is ordered by the year the project commenced and may continue over several years.
  • Funding amounts for contact research are not disclosed to maintain commercial confidentiality.
  • The order of investigators is not indicative of the role they played in the research project.

Impact of student cultural background on NAPLAN performance
From: Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools Ltd
Other investigators: Dr Shuyan Huo, Mr Andrew Wade, Dr Melissa Tham
For period: 2022-2023
Not disclosed

Data Analytics in External Auditing
From: CPA Australia
For period: 2020-2020
$54,545

Supervision of research students at VU

Available to supervise research students

Available for media queries

Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
1 PhD Integrated Principal supervisor
2 PhD Integrated Associate supervisor
1 Master of Research Associate supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD Integrated (1) Principal supervisor
PhD Integrated (2) Associate supervisor
Master of Research (1) Associate supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
3 PhD Associate supervisor
2 Doctor of Business Administration Associate supervisor
1 PhD Integrated Associate supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (3) Associate supervisor
Doctor of Business Administration (2) Associate supervisor
PhD Integrated (1) Associate supervisor

Careers

Details of this Researcher's career are currently unavailable.