Biography
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.
Research Interests
Risk Management, Insurance, Machine Learning, Insurance, Quantitative Finance, Cybersecurity, Smart Mobility, Nanotechnology, Financial RegulationProfessional Activities
Association
- Academic Member, Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software
- Member, Cyber Ireland
- Member, American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA)
- External Examiner, Insurance Institute