News & events

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!

Philipp Zimmermann successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Inverse problems for variable coefficient nonlocal operators". Congratulations!

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!

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.

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".