Peter Sarlin
Speaker

Peter Sarlin

Professor of Practice at Hanken School of Economics

Peter Sarlin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Silo.AI, the largest private artificial intelligence lab in the Nordics. He is also a Professor of Practice specializing in machine learning and artificial intelligence at Hanken School of Economics (Helsinki, Finland).

As a founder of RiskLab Finland at Arcada, Peter is a co-organizer of the Annual RiskLab/BoF/ESRB Systemic Risk Analytics Conference and Europe’s 1st Fintech Master’s program. He is also a research associate with the Systemic Risk Center at London School of Economics, Imperial College London, IWH Halle Institute for Economic Research, and the Financial Innovation Lab at the University of Cape Town, as well as a board member of the IEEE Analytics and Risk Technical Committee and the IEEE Computational Finance and Economics Technical Committee. Moreover, he is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Network Theory in Finance and Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance & Management. Peter completed his Ph.D. in 2013 at Turku Centre for Computer Science and has also studied at London School of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, and Stockholm University.

Peter has built solutions as an external consultant with the European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund, Bank of Finland, Deutsche Bundesbank, De Nederlandsche Bank, Bank of Indonesia, and Banco de la República of Colombia, as well as several other private organizations. He is also a founder of Infolytika Ventures and Almax Analytics.  Peter’s book Mapping Financial Stability was published by Springer in May 2014 and his current research interests include machine learning, natural-language processing, complex systems, and visual analytics.

Professional affiliations

Hanken School of Economics