- Affiliated Lecturer
Biography
I arrived as an undergraduate student at Trinity in 1988 where I studied for a B.A. in Electrical and Information Science Engineering, followed by a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence with a thesis on face recognition. In the mid-90s, after working at the Olivetti Research Laboratory, I moved to the City where I spent over 20 years in investment banking covering senior roles in trading and risk management. I started at Credit Suisse Financial Products in Canary Wharf and was later hired by Unicredit as one of the founders of their investment bank in Milan. My current areas of interest include decentralised finance, machine learning and smart software applications for the financial industry.
Publications
Conference Proceedings
Samaria, F., Syfrig. H., Jones, A., and Hopper, A., "Enhancing network services through multimedia data analysers", in Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Multimedia, pp. 377-383. 1997
Addlesee, M. D., Jones, A., Livesey, F. and Samaria, F., "The ORL active floor [sensor system]", in IEEE Personal Communications, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 35-41, Oct. 1997, https://doi.org/10.1109/98.626980
Heap, A. and Samaria, F., "Real-time hand tracking and gesture recognition using smart snakes", in Interface to Real and Virtual Worlds, Montpellier, 1995
Samaria, F. S. and Harter, A. C., "Parameterisation of a stochastic model for human face identification", Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Sarasota, FL, USA, 1994, pp. 138-142, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACV.1994.341300
Samaria, F. and Young, S., "HMM-based architecture for face identification", Image and Vision Computing, Volume 12, Issue 8, 1994, Pages 537-543, ISSN 0262-8856, https://doi.org/10.1016/0262-8856(94)90007-8
Samaria, F., "Automated Face Identification using Hidden Markov Models", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Mechatronics, 1993, https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1573950399327771136
Samaria, F., "Face Segmentation For Identification Using Hidden Markov Models", in John Illingworth, editors, Proceedings of the British Machine Conference, pages 40.1-40.10. BMVA Press, September 1993. https://doi.org/10.5244/C.7.40
Book chapters
De Silvestro, G., GIranzani, M., Santambrogio, R. and Samaria, F., "Pricing Hybrid Structures", in Hybrid Products, edited by Batchvarov, A., Risk Books, 2004
Frugoli, G. and Samaria, F., "Seeking Capital Protection through Portfolio Insurance", in A wealth manager's guide to structured products, introduced by Benson, R., Risk Boooks, 2004
Nassigh, A., Piazzetta, A. and Samaria, F., "Implementing VaR by Historicaal Simulation", in New Directions in Mathematical Finance, edited by Wilmott, P. and Rasmussen, H, Wiley, 2002
My Ph.D. Thesis
Samaria, F., "Face recognition using Hidden Markov Models", Ph.D thesis, Cambridge University, 1994, https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.14051
