At ORCID, we believe that the global challenge of upholding research integrity is one that requires community-driven solutions. Join us for this provocative webinar series where we invite thought leaders and experts in research, cyber security, and more to share their insights about trends and emerging solutions. 

In this session, learn about Infolinx’s distinctive approach to combating the growing challenge of scholarly publishing fraud. Infolinx seeks to apply proven best-in-class techniques developed over decades by the consumer finance industry to the emerging integrity problems facing the scholarly publishing industry.

Presenters Alan Schiffres and Don Kumka will share key insights learned by the credit card and consumer finance industries over sixty years about how to manage fraud. They will discuss the various categories of research integrity solutions currently available, how they fit together in the publishing lifecycle, and Infolinx’s unique approach to develop and deploy author “fingerprints” derived from deep data networks and powerful analytics to detect potential fraud.

Infolinx was founded by seasoned senior consumer finance executives who successfully created and managed data-driven solutions for the consumer finance industry, most applicably to credit cards, where identification and mitigation of credit card fraud is an on-going and migrating challenge kept under control by increasingly sophisticated analytical solutions.

Though we face significant challenges to uphold research integrity, we remain optimistic that by working together, our community can make meaningful and lasting progress towards a world where all who participate in research, scholarship, and innovation are uniquely — and reliably — identified and connected to their contributions across disciplines, borders, and time. Register for this session to be a part of community solutions for global challenges. 

Featured Speakers

ALAN SCHIFFRES, is co-founder and Managing Director of Infolinx. Before founding Infolinx, Alan spent over 40 years in financial services, including senior positions at Citicorp, Dean Witter, and American Express, where he served as Chief Credit Officer for the firm’s Gold/Platinum Card Division and consumer lending products.

In addition to his work in industry, Alan was Partner/Managing Director at Novantas Inc. where he led the consulting firm’s Consumer Risk Management and Advanced Analytics practices.  He was also Managing Director at Portfolio Management Associates, Inc., a consulting firm
specializing in consumer credit risk management.

Alan earned a ScB in Computer Science from Brown University and a MBA from the Harvard
Business School.

DON KUMKA is a co-founder and Chief Data Scientist of Infolinx

Prior to his current role at Infolinx, Don held senior data science positions at Time/Warner, Citibank Card Products Group, Portfolio Management Associates, Novantas Inc, and Curinos as well as a professorship teaching graduate and undergraduate statistics, data science and analytics.

Over his career Don has been recognized for finding novel data driven solutions to
business problems by leveraging cross-discipline analytic techniques and technologies.
As Chief Data Scientist, he will bring his decades of experience to developing solutions
to the integrity problems currently challenging academic publishing.

Don holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota.