Committee

Please see below the current Committee and list of chairs for each Working Party.
For details of members of each Working Party, please visit each Working Party homepage, via the main menu above.

Chair of Research Section: Alexis Iglauer
Vice Chair of Research Section: Dylan Liew

Chairs for individual Working Parties

W01 - Supervised Learning: Neptune Jin
W02 - Federated Learning: Malgorzata Smietanka
W03 - Natural Language Processing: John Ng
W04 - Unsupervised Learning: Debashish Dey
W05 - Deep Learning: Pieter Knox
W06 - Explainable AI: Jonathan Bowden
W07 - Data Visualisation: Eilish Bouse
W08 - Contents & Webpages: Zack Chan
W09 - Data Analytics in Embedded Insurance: Zack Chan
W10 - Statistical Learning: George Tzougas
W11 - Algorithmic Fairness: Arjit Das
W12 - Bayesian Methods: Saunak Datta
W13 - Actuarial Data Science: Karol Gawlowski

Selected members

Below are more detailed profiles of selected members of the Data Science group.



image-left John Ng is Senior Data Scientist and Actuary at RGA, providing predictive modelling solutions and research insights for clients on mortality, morbidity, biometrics, actuarial pricing and digital distribution. Previously he designed and led Automated Machine Learning platforms to price a range of personal lines products. John is passionate about promoting the adoption of advance and responsible data science within the actuarial community.









image-left Małgorzata Śmietanka is PhD researcher in the UCL Computer Science Department, leading the Actuari project at UCL and insurance industry collaboration through UCL spinout Actuari Ltd









image-left Jonathan Bowden is an Associate Actuary and Data Scientist with experience in Banking and Non-life Insurance and has developed models across a range of applications, including statistical risk analyses and data investigations for banks, insurers and government entities. He is passionate about solving problems using machine learning techniques and is always looking to learn more.









image-left Claudio Giancaterino is an actuary and a data science enthusiast in his free time. He likes to participate in hackathon competitions, and is delighted to attend projects about data science topics.






image-left Zack Chan is a qualified actuary and currently studying Computing Science at Imperial College London. He has a wide range of experience in general insurance reserving, capital and risk management, having worked in Singapore and more recently in the UK.









image-left Afzaal Ahmed is a qualified Actuary with experience primarily within life insurance consulting, where he specialised in modelling and transaction engagements. In recent years he has been involved in the technology space where he specialised in the development and sale of web applications directly to end-users. Afzaal is passionate about solution development within the field of data analysis.