Daniel Seyyedi, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Managing Director - insurance products and innovation Deliver best-in-class specialty insurance solutions by building and managing a profitable and competitive parametric and traditional product —Substantial.
• Led an international team with providing oversight on processes to develop new and innovative insurance offerings
• Accelerate business growth by developing new products, adopting new technologies, selecting industry-leading data vendors, and improving insurance distribution channel
• Structuring and developing parametric insurance for MGA space
• Hire, manage, and mentor a diverse group of product developers, IT, legal, retail distributors, and underwriters
• Foster relationships with regulators and compliance resources to facilitate new product approvals, ensure regulatory requirements, and positively influence company brand

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Redefined strategies in parametric solution in reinsurance domain, creating a geographical/peril diverse profitable portfolio
• Increased international market presence by presenting new platform and capabilities to global and national clients
• Enabling clients to increase market competitiveness by changing product strategy
• Determined appropriate premiums and pricing structures, guiding market sector on go-to-market strategy
• Coordinated and executed deals by facilitating the process across a cross-functional team and overseeing client communications to achieve a profitable portfolio
• Advised clients with adoption of new technologies including cloud-based computational power, remote sensing, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (MI)

Schaumburg

Greater Chicago Area

• Advised clients on quantifying, managing, and improving catastrophe risk exposure
• Consulted with clients on appropriate risk selection, proper risk pricing, and portfolio steering for natural perils
• Partnered with internal teams to identify needs and build customized catastrophe loss models
• Initiated and organized first two Aon Flood Conferences to introduce capabilities and services to industry leaders
• Built and fostered a collaborative team environment by delegating tasks, overseeing results, and monitoring team growth
• Enabled prompt risk evaluation and underwriting tools that captured risk associated with inland flood and coastal storm surge by developing real-time, post-event flood models

Greater Chicago Area

• Joined Aon’s Impact Forecasting as a senior scientist after completing my PhD program. Contributed primarily to the development of US and Canada flood maps - tools used by insurers and reinsurers to analyze the.
• Developed real-time flood models using satellite-based technology and loss estimate, enabling prompt risk evaluation and underwriting tools that captured risk associated with floods caused by precipitation and coastal.

United States

• Defined project framework, including objectives, study area, timeframe, required data, preparation and processing techniques, ensemble simulation, database management and statistical analysis techniques
• Coordinated data preparation, processing and matching, and managed database of high-volume data
• Modified a two-dimensional satellite error model and performed statistical analysis on generated ensembles
• Wrote programming for data preparation, statistical analysis, and database management using MATLAB and Fortran

United States

• Facilitated an improved and streamlined process by developing tools to connect various components
• Improved data downloading, preparation and processing for remotely sensed precipitation data by designing an automated system that integrated within existing database
• Evaluated accuracy of existing global-scale, high-resolution satellite products
• Developed multiple stochastic modeling and downscaling techniques and created graphical user interface (GUI) for hydrologic and hydraulic models
• Investigated use of ensemble satellite rainfall retrievals to analyze remote, ungauged regions for flood frequency and vulnerability maps
• Prepared global-scale data from remotely sensed and reanalysis sources for large-scale hydrological modeling

Shiraz

- Project team leader in designing Earth dams with finite element methods. Partially presented in 4th national congress civil engineering, Tehran, “3 dimensional analysis of Earth Dam by finite element numerical method”- Prepared technical aspects of projects related to river engineering and flood management. The projects have required an extensive.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering

Focusing on Precipitation Remote Sensing, Hydrological Simulations, Flood Modeling, Statistical Analysis, CAT modeling

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Environmental Science

Thesis: Comparing Satellite derived rainfall with ground precipitation radar data for Northwestern Europe.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Hydraulic Structures

Mainly focused on: -Numerical hydraulic modelling: modelling steady and unsteady flows in open channels with solving Saint Venant.