Risk Analysis, Machine Learning Applications in Finance and Insurance, Risk and Insurance, Quantitative Finance

Dr. Barry Sheehan is an Associate Professor in risk and finance at the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick. He is the Course Director for a cluster of award-winning interdisciplinary programmes, including the MSc in Machine Learning for Finance, the MSc. in Computational Finance, and the HCI-awarded Grad. Dip. in Artificial Intelligence in Finance. Dr. Sheehan is a researcher with significant insurance industry and academic experience. With a professional background in actuarial science, his research (indexed here) uses machine-learning techniques to estimate the changing risk profile produced by emerging technologies. He is a senior member of Emerging Risk Group (ERG) at the University of Limerick, which has long-established expertise in insurance and risk management and has continued success within large research consortia, including a number of SFI, Interreg Europe and EU H2020 research projects. In particular, he contributed to the successful completion of three Horizon 2020 EU-funded projects, including PROTECT, Vision Inspired Driver Assistance Systems (VI-DAS) and Cloud Large Scale Video Analysis (Cloud-LSVA). These consortia are predominately driven by technical objectives, and our role is one of assessing the legal, ethical, and actuarial impact of the state-of-the-art innovations.