News & events
Doctoral exam of John Ery
John Ery successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Actuarial data science: lnsights from pricing, capital modeling and CAT bonds". Congratulations!
Paul Embrechts receives Best Paper Award on Financial Engineering
Paul Embrechts and his co-authors were awarded the Best Paper Award on Financial Engineering in the journal Operations Research.
Stephan Eckstein to become tenure track assistant professor at the University of Tübingen
Congratulations to Stephan Eckstein, Postdoc at RiskLab, on his appointment as tenure track assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics at University of Tübingen starting in January 2024. He will also become a member of the university's "Machine Learning Cluster".
Swiss Re Prize for the Best Reinsurance or Risk Paper in 2023
The prize was awarded to Ronald Richman (Old Mutual Insure and Wits University, South Africa) and Mario Wüthrich (RiskLab) for their paper "Smoothness and Monotonicity Constraints for Neural Networks Using ICEnet" at the occasion of the 50th Annual Convention of the Actuarial Society of South Africa on 11./12. October 2023.
Walter Saxer Prize 2023
The 2023 Walter Saxer Prize goes to Gabriele Visentin for his doctoral thesis and to Rebecca Morger for her Master's thesis. Congratulations!
Doctoral exam of Philipp Zimmermann
Philipp Zimmermann successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Inverse problems for variable coefficient nonlocal operators". Congratulations!
Doctoral exam of Florian Rossmannek
Florian Rossmannek successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "The curse of dimensionality and gradient-based training of neural networks: shrinking the gap between theory and applications". Congratulations!
New Release "Statistical Foundations of Actuarial Learning and its Applications"
Mario Wüthrich (RiskLab) and Michael Merz (Universität Hamburg) have the great pleasure to announce their new book "Statistical Foundations of Actuarial Learning and its Applications" which has appeared at Springer Actuarial.
RGA Prize for the Best Convention Paper 2022
Ronald Richman (Old Mutual Insure and Wits University, South Africa) and Mario Wüthrich (RiskLab) were awarded the "RGA Prize for the Best Convention Paper 2022" by the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA) for their paper "LASSO Regularization within the LocalGLMnet Architecture".
Airbus Research Grant Claude Dornier
Stephan Eckstein, postdoctoral researcher at RiskLab, received the "Airbus Research Grant Claude Dornier" 2020/2021 at the University of Konstanz. Congratulations!