RiskLab News
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.
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!