Samuel Wamba Fosso

Samuel Wamba Fosso is a Cameroonian researcher, author, and academic. He is a professor at TBS Education in France and a Distinguished Visiting professor at The University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a visiting professor of Artificial Intelligence at Bradford University from September 2020 to September 2021 Fosso's research focuses on various aspects of artificial intelligence in business, including business analytics, big data, social media, and open data. Additionally, he has explored the business value of information technology, inter-organizational system adoption and its impacts, supply chain management, electronic commerce, and blockchain. He has authored 5 books, including Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation, and Transformation de la supply chain grâce aux systèmes d’information : Apport de l’Internet des Objets and has written book chapters and journal articles. Fosso is an academic founder of RFID Academia. He is most known for his contributions to big data analytics and enterprise, which is attributed to the high number of published articles and citations. He ranks among the 1% most cited scholars in the world for the years 2020, 2021, and 2022 based on Clarivate Analytics’ Highly Cited Researchers List. Fosso studied for a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the University of Yaoundé I, which he completed in 1996. Later, in 2000, he received his first master's degree in mathematics from Sherbrooke University in Canada, followed by a second master's degree in E-commerce from Montreal University in Canada. For his Ph.D., he researched Industrial Engineering at Montreal University, specializing in the impact of RFID technology and the EPC Network on supply chain management in the retail industry. His thesis was titled "An empirical study of the Impact of RFID Technology and the EPC Network on supply chain management: The Case of the retail industry".