UCL School of Management Lecturer Dr. Deyu Ming and Professor Steve Yoo have secured a £200,000 Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Howden Re, the global reinsurance, capital markets and strategic advisory arm of Howden, the global insurance intermediary group, marking the school’s first-ever KTP project. Co-funded by Innovate UK and Howden Re, the collaboration will apply cutting-edge artificial intelligence to automate and innovate data processing in the (re)insurance sector, bridging the gap between academic research and commercial applications of AI.