The Centre brings together its Director, doctoral scholars, and members from the Ulster University Business School Finance Group. Members are listed by their alignment to the Centre’s research themes.
Director; Professor of Finance and Financial Technology
Chartered Statistician. Research in computational regulation and market surveillance, AI asset pricing, and financial text intelligence, with a consistent emphasis on explainability and accountability.
Themes: responsible models and governance; causal and econometric methods; financial text and document intelligence.
PhD scholar — Agentic AI for Financial Crime Detection
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with Pytilia. Supervised by Professor Barry Quinn and Professor Jun Liu.
Theme: responsible models and governance.
PhD scholar — Generative AI for AML Investigator Training
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with Napier AI. Supervised by Professor Barry Quinn and Dr Bryan Gardiner.
Theme: responsible models and governance; financial text and document intelligence.
PhD scholar — Innovation Quality Signals from Patent Text
Department for the Economy studentship. Supervised by Professor Barry Quinn, Dr Bryan Gardiner and Dr Stephen Billington.
Theme: financial text and document intelligence.
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