Dragana is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, as part of the Digital Innovation Research Group, conducting research within the field of information systems.
Her research interests are centered around data and artificial intelligence (AI). She studies data and AI with a particular focus on the digital-physical intersection and the interplay of technology and law. Her research engages with topics such as data and semantics, digital twins, data governance, and AI and domain knowledge.
Her research has been published in international journals and conferences, such as “Information and Organization”, “npj Digital Medicine”, “International Conference on Information Systems”, and the “European Conference on Information Systems”.
Dragana has received several awards for her research and community service within the field of information systems, including:
- Best Information Systems Publication Award 2023, awarded by the Association of Information Systems, Senior Scholars Committee, for the article: Paparova, D., Aanestad, M., Vassilakopoulou, P., & Bahus, M. K. (2023). Data governance spaces: the case of a national digital service for personal health data. Information and Organization, 33(1), 100451.
- Best Student Paper Award 1st Runner Up, awarded by the Association of Information Systems and the International Conference on Information Systems, for the paper:
Svendsrud, D. S., & Paparova, D. (2023). Data Hierarchies: The Emergence of an Industrial Data Ecosystem. Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth International Conference on Information Systems - Best Associate Editor Award at The Thirty-Third European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2025), Amman, Jordan
In 2022, Dragana was a Visiting Researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences for two semesters, as part of the Information Systems and Innovation Research Group.