News & events

RiskLab welcomes PhD student Matthias Grützner

Philippe von Wurstemberger successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Overcoming the curse of dimensionality for PDEs: from conventional numerics and nonlinear Monte Carlo to deep learning". Congratulations!

RiskLab welcomes postdoc Urban Ulrych

RiskLab welcomes postdoc Jean-Loup Dupret

John Ery successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Actuarial data science: lnsights from pricing, capital modeling and CAT bonds". Congratulations!  

Paul Embrechts and his co-authors were awarded the Best Paper Award on Financial Engineering in the journal Operations Research.

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".

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.

The 2023 Walter Saxer Prize goes to Gabriele Visentin for his doctoral thesis and to Rebecca Morger for her Master's thesis. Congratulations!