This working party will investigate tools and packages available to perform data visualisation and produce outputs that conform to best practice in the area.
The following are active research working parties overseen by the IFoA’s Data Science Community Leadership Team.
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This working party will investigate tools and packages available to perform data visualisation and produce outputs that conform to best practice in the area.
Chair: Stephen Windell
Established: 2020
This working party will conduct a systematic review of AI applications in actuarial science, leaning towards practitioner's perspective.
The aim of this study would be to investigate whether the pricing/reserving/capital (actuarially driven departments in insurance companies) could improve their output through the use of AI-based tools and why. Both cases, where AI does not bring satisfiable results that would justify disruption and the converse should be examined, yielding a clear view of the direction of the actuarial profession.
Chair: Karol Gawłowski
Established: 2023
This working party will undertake research into the use of Bayesian Methods
Chair: Saunak Datta
Established: 2022
The aim of this working party is to:
Chair: Malgorzata Smietanka
Established: 2020
This research will demonstrate NLP techniques through the research of sentiment analysis using Twitter data and will also undertake other AI focused research.
Chair: Lei Fang
Established: 2020
The aim of this working party is to focus on:
Chair: Alexey Mashechkin
Established: 2018
The aim of this research is to construct highly flexible actuarial models such as:
Chair: George Tzougas
Established: 2020
This working party will:
Co-chairs: George Tzougas and Debashish Dey
Established: 2022
This research intends to focus on the following:
Chair: Debashish Dey
Established: 2020
The aim of this working party is to:
Chair: David Bennett
Established: 2017