Finance, Technology and Artificial Intelligence Research Lab
About FAB
Centre Directors: Dr Barry Quinn and Dr Fearghal Kearney
The Finance, Technology and Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (FAB) is a cross-disciplinary research institute based at Queen’s Management School (QMS). The lab will be industry-focused and aims to provide thought leadership for Northern Ireland’s vibrant financial technology ecosystem.
The mission is to bridge gaps between information technologies, data science, innovation, and financial decision-making. The goal is to be a global lab of excellence, uniquely located at the gateway between the UK, and the EU.
Northern Ireland is recognised as a world-leading cyber security ecosystem underpinned by QUB’s CSIT (Centre for Secure Intelligent Technology) – the UK’s largest cyber security-focused university technology partner. The unique location of Northern Ireland gives access to UK and EU markets, making QMS uniquely positioned to establish an emerging research lab for fintech, working in partnership with CSIT, to provide business and financial insights for the digital economy.
Centre for Secure Information Technologies
CSIT is the UK’s Innovation and Knowledge Centre for cyber security, based at QUB. Their mission is to couple major research breakthroughs in the field of secure information technologies with a unique model of innovation and commercialisation to drive economic and societal impact.
Learn more about CSITFAB Key Activities
- Collaborate with industry on Knowledge Transfer Partnerships to drive innovation.
- Take part in industry-sponsored research activities, including PhD co-funding like CAST.
- Actively engage in corporate sponsorship and collaboration funding projects.
- Establish a sandbox program to cultivate future-ready graduates by transforming our courses into real-world sandboxes, bringing together students, academics, and industry to co-create solutions for contemporary problems.
Flagship Projects
- Rethinking econometrics for the age of AI implementation.
- Financial tail risk, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (co-produced research with NI FinTechs).
- Financial technologies and financial inclusion (Fully funded AHSS International PhD Scholar).
- Trader surveillance (CSIT + FAB collaborations).
- Secure and connected regulatory technology innovation (collaboration with Global Innovation Institute).
Institutional Partners
Members
FAB brings together experts in the financial technology ecosystem. Its members' research strengths lie in the fields of financial services, cyber security, Artificial Intelligence (AI), ethics and machine learning . It also links to experts working in other Schools at Queen's University Belfast and beyond, with research expertise in innovation and leadership in these fields.
FAB has four categories of members:
- Steering Group
- External Senior Members
- Queen's Management School Members
- Student Fellows
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Steering Group
- Barry Quinn: Senior Lecturer in Finance and FAB Director, Queen's Management School
- Fearghal Kearney: Senior Lecturer in Finance and FAB Director, Queen's Management School
- Gareth Campbell: Professor of Finance, Queen's Management School
- Declan Breslin: Honorary Professor of Practice in Financial Services, Queen's Management School
- Clare Guinness: Innovation District Director, Belfast Region City Deal
- Philip Hamill: Professor of Finance, Associate Provost for Research and Academic Department, Abu Dhabi University
- External Senior Members
- Paul Miller: Reader of Computer Science, Deputy Head of the Centre for Secure and Intelligence Technologies, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast
- Hui Wang: Professor of Computer Science, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast
- Aidan McGowan: Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast
- Michelle Butler: Senior Lecturer in Criminology, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work
- Queen's Management School Members
- Laura Steele: Senior Lecturer (Education) in Business and Society and Director of Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability
- Alan Hanna: Senior Lecturer in Finance
- Tony Klein: Senior Lecturer in Finance
- Mark Farrell: Senior Lecturer of Actuarial Science
- Clive Walker: Lecturer in Finance
- Joseph Harrigan: Professor of Practice in Finance
- Byron Graham: Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics
- Aine Gallagher: Lecturer in Finance
- Karolis Matikonis: Lecturer in Business Analytics
- Yassine Bakkar: Lecturer in Finance
- William Quinn: Senior Lecturer in Finance
- Jiadong Liu: Lecturer in Finance
- Qiao (Olivia) Peng: Lecturer in Business Analytics
- Tripti Sharma: Lecturer in Finance
- Lisa Sheenan: Lecturer in Finance
- Minyou Fan: Lecturer in Finance
- Student Fellows
- Colm Kelly: Machine Learning Researcher, FundAxis Ltd; PhD candidate in financial machine learning and asset pricing
- Abhishek Pramanick: PhD Candidate in regulatory technology and financial inclusion
- Fei Li: PhD Candidate in XAI and ESG 'fair value' pricing
- Veronica Zhang: PhD Candidate in Regulatory Implications in the development of the Chinese banking sector
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