Lahiru Somaratne Email & Phone Number

Lincoln, Ne, Us

Lincoln, Nebraska Metropolitan Area

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Designing and creating data exploration, inference, and prediction platforms that integrate and enhance current workflows, including:● Building at scale, minimum lag data visualization platforms using tools such as Plotly to explore high frequency data spanning decades.● Exploring and understanding long term dependencies in temporal data and building machine learning models that can transcend modeling limitations of traditional Statistical/Actuarial models using frameworks such as Sckit-Learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch.● Liaising with stakeholders of all levels to plan, design, implement, and manage change induced by workflow modernization.

Lincoln, Nebraska Area

● Lead an International Economics recitation of 150+ students and grade homework for an International Finance class.● Mentored students through office hours and one-on-one communication.● Checked assignments, and provided grades according to university standards.● Liaised between faculty and students to answer questions and optimize faculty time.

Lincoln, Nebraska Metropolitan Area

● Researched and identified the topic of Loss Development in P&C as a suitable topic and identified a credible loss triangle data set from the CAS website, to begin model development.● Reorganized the data from about 14,000 rows and 56 columns to Loss Development Factors using ‘numpy’ and ‘pandas’ packages of Python to better extract loss patterns.● Modeled the data using Bidirectional LSTMs in Tensorflow and Keras, to forecast Ultimate Losses from the loss triangles.● The 10-year forecast of the model outperformed the ‘Chain Ladder’ python package; an industry standard in ultimate loss prediction.

Overland Park, Kansas

● Designed and coded a data visualization & quantitative performance diagnostics dashboard using R, especially the ‘tidyverse’ suite, to provide the senior management with high-level information about key performance indicator trends of a life insurance firm. The dashboard used data aggregated from more than 1 million records.● Collaborated with a cross functional team of senior actuaries and software developers to identify and resolve customer issues with regard to CASE software (actuarial valuation software that is produced and marketed by the company).● Monitored and tracked quality assurance runs of the CASE software, using in-house diagnosis tools, and consulted with the in-house software and actuarial teams to rectify any issues.● Oversaw several data science projects within the company, such as shock lapse analysis using generalized linear modeling, and thereafter presented and communicated the findings to the senior management.

Lincoln, Nebraska Area

● Coded a self-randomizing question base of Actuarial questions in MapleTA to be used for online administered tests for Actuarial students.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

● Developed a fund balance system for a dividend based investment cum life insurance product.● Underwent life insurance orientation process.● Familiarized the reinsurance process and the reinsurance treaty of HNBA.● Conducted a LIMRA lapse study in Excel.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

● Shadowed the VP of Corporate Treasury & VP of Forex & Risk Treasury. ● Conducted financial analysis of “Factors that affect Government Security Yields of Sri Lanka”.● Presented the above findings to the respective CEOs and the senior leadership of CitiBank, Unilever, & Virtusa.

Master'S Degree, Actuarial Science, 3.96

Activities and Societies: Conducted applied deep learning research and presented by work at the Actuarial Research Conference 2021.

B.Sc Actuarial Science (Distinction), Actuarial Science, 3.85

Activities and Societies: I was a part of the honors societies: Alpha Lambda Delta, Phi Eta Sigma, & Tau Sigma. I was also the Treasurer.

American Degree Transfer Program, Actuarial Science, Cgpa - 3.71

Activities and Societies: HELP Toast Masters, HELP Debate Society, and HELP MUN 2014Other than completing my General Educational.

Commerce

Activities and Societies: Debate Team, Model United Nations Team, United Nations Team, and Prefect's GuildCambridge O/Ls - Second Best.