About
Swati is a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence in Finance (Financial Technology). She joined the Management School at the University of Liverpool in August 2021. Her research interests are centered on the development of explainable AI and machine learning algorithms to automate and augment decision-making in finance, insurance, and law. Swati is actively engaged in the development of automated auditing of AI algorithmic decisions using Blockchain technology (Link to Swati's GitHub Profile).
Her current research is focused on the integration of Explainable AI, Cryptographic Security, and Decentralized Technologies such as Blockchain to develop systems for financial inclusion and legal equality for underserved communities in society. She publishes regularly in IEEE, IET Conferences, and AI journals.
She was a research associate at the Alliance Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester, from Oct 2017 to Jul 2021 at the Decision and Cognitive Sciences Research Centre. She has worked on an AI Smart Claim insurance project funded by UKRI. The Smart Claim Insurance Project was a collaboration between Kennedys Law and AXA Insurance to develop an industry-defining toolkit for the augmentation and automation of the whole claims process. She has worked on FinTech project with Together Financial Services to develop an explainable AI decision-support system to automate mortgage lending and a consulting project with AstraZeneca to improve financial data quality by machine learning.
Swati has a Master's in Operational Research in Finance from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Operational Research and Applied Statistics from Glasgow. She did her Master's dissertation on econometric modeling with Shell Royal Dutch plc and then worked as a statistician in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. After completing her PhD, she joined the University of Nottingham as a Research Fellow to work on a European Commission project on Innovative Intelligent Rail (In2Rail).