Karolina Weyna 

Date/Time: 30.04.2025, 12:00 

Location: D2.2.094 

Abstract 

Karolina's individual research project, supervised by PD Dr. Ronald Hochreiter, will focus on designing a governance framework tailored specifically to regulatory and ethical requirements of generative AI systems in the European financial sector. The work will incorporate a study on a real-world generative AI application in banking as well as explore mechanisms that allow agents to challenge the gen AI systems effectively. This idea was developed in collaboration with Research Innovation Hub at Raiffeisen Bank International. Furthermore, her collaborative work within the MSCA Digital Finance will contribute to its ambition of advancing the European financial data space through status and technical reports. 

Her work will be part of the MSCA Digital Finance is an Industrial Doctoral Network established within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. It brings together a diverse network of academic institutions, research centers, and industry partners across Europe to foster collaboration and innovation, advancing knowledge, technology, and solutions in digital finance. The MSCA Digital Finance network aims to contribute to five key research objectives:

1. Ensuring sufficient data quality to support the EU's efforts in building a single digital market for data.

2. Addressing deployment challenges associated with complex artificial intelligence models in real-world financial applications.

3. Validating the utility of state-of-the-art explainable AI algorithms for financial applications.

4. Designing risk management tools for the application of blockchain technology in finance.

5. Simulating financial markets and evaluating financial products with a sustainability component.

 

Bio 

Karolina Weyna have joined the Institute for Computationally Intensive Methods (Rechenintensive Methoden) Institute and the Department of Finance, Accounting and Statistics at WU in December 2024, as a project employee under the MSCA Digital Finance. In March 2025, She began the Doctoral Program in Social and Economic Sciences. She hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Economics and Business Technology from Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a Master of Science degree specializing in International and Sustainable Finance from KU Leuven.