Gareth W. Peters

Professor Gareth W. Peters is the Janet & Ian Duncan Chair in Actuarial Science at the Department of Statistics & Applied Probability, University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). A Fellow of multiple prestigious institutions (FIOR, FRSS, FIMA, YAS-RSE, IEEE-Senior), his research spans statistical risk modeling, insurance analytics, machine learning, and environmental finance.

• Risk & Insurance
• Bayesian Modeling
• Machine Learning in Finance
• Environmental Data Analysis
• Cyber Risk Quantification

His recent work explores agricultural commodities, municipal green bonds, hearing loss diagnostics, and financial regime classification. Articles reflect trends in network-structured data, multivariate screening, and causal inference.

Scientific Awards

• Peter-Clark Prize (2024)
• Fellow of the Institute of Risk & Safety Management (FIOR)
• Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (FRSS)
• Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA)
• Young Academy of Scotland (YAS-RSE)
• Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
• IEEE Senior Member