Lecturer Profile

Haibo Zhang, former Global Head of Analytics for Financial Crime and Threat Mitigation at HSBC in charge of analytics for all Transaction Monitoring Systems such as Actimize, Norkom, Mantas, Quantexa, Ayasdi (now SymphonyAI Sensa), and SAS; Former Senior Scientist at NICE Actimize, Fortent, and Searchspace. Designed and implemented key analytics utilized by more than 20 global banks, including Peer Group Analysis, K-Mean Segmentation, TDA-based (Topological Data Analysis) segmentation for Correspondent Banking, Scenario Automatic Tuning, Security Blankets Tuning, Entity Consolidation Engine, and Event Triage Engine.

He recently serves as:

  • Advisor to the Global Head of Data and Analytics of FinCrime at a major international bank.
  • A skilled person as the Monitor for a major US brokerage firm
  • Advisor to ML/AI-based FinTech companies

Haibo holds a PhD in Computational Biology.