Essec Working Group on Risk

L'Institut des Actuaires s'associe au Working Group on Risk de l'ESSEC-CREAR pour sa prochaine conférence sur le thème :

"Data Science Challenges and Limitations in the Real World " par le Dr. Marcin DETYNIECKI (Head of Data Science and R&D at the Data Innovation Lab, GIE AXA).

Short bio of the speaker:  

Marcin Detyniecki is Head of Data Science and R&D at the Data Innovation Lab of AXA Group. He leads a large team of data scientists working on operational products, such as a pay-as-you-drive connected platform, and on more long term research projects such as adversarial approaches for fair machine learning. Marcin Detyniecki studied mathematics, physics and computer science at UPMC (Paris 6) and obtained there a doctorate degree in Artificial Intelligence in 2000. Between 2001 and 2014, he was a research scientist at CNRS. He was also researcher at the University of California at Berkeley and at Carnegie Mellon University, and visiting researcher at the University of Florence and at British Telecom Research labs. Today, he is Associate Researcher at the Computer Science Laboratory LIP6 of Université Sorbonne andProfessor at the Polish Academy of Science. Dr. Detyniecki has over 100 publications in academic journals and conference proceedings. Currently, his research focuses on data science and big data challenges of the insurance sector.

Abstract: More and more data science is being used in real world applications (e.g. governments, industries). While the underlying techniques (e.g. machine learning) provide great opportunities, they also come with strong challenges. During this talk, we will discuss some of the existing limitations and their underlying reasons. One of the challenges is, for instance, the machine learning interpretability. In fact, many machine learning models are black-boxes: answers to questions, such as why a particular prediction is made? when is the model right or wrong? what can be done to change a prediction?, are not simple to obtain and require the development of specific techniques. Faced with such complexity, we will present what is being done today to address these limitations.

A l'initiative du Centre de Recherche sur le Risque de l'ESSEC – CREAR, avec le soutien de l'Institut des Actuaires, du LAbEx MME-DII, et du bureau Banque-Finance-Assurance de la Société Française de Statistique, le WG Risk organise environ deux fois par mois des conférences sur le thème des risques. Réunissant professionnels, universitaires et étudiants, et coordonnées par Marie Kratz, Professeure à l'ESSEC, les conférences données par des professionnels ou des académiques sur des sujets d'actualité peuvent être en français ou en anglais. Retrouvez toutes les informations pratiques et les précédentes conférences sur le site de CREAR-ESSEC : http://crear.essec.edu/working-group-on-risk​