Dr Barry Sheehan is a lecturer in risk and finance in the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick.  He is a researcher with extensive insurance industry and academic experience. With a professional background in actuarial science, his research uses machine-learning techniques to estimate the changing risk profile produced by emerging technologies. He is contributing member of Emerging Risk Group (ERG) at the University of Limerick which has a long-established expertise in insurance and risk management and has a continued success within large research consortia including a number of EU H2020 and FP7 research projects.