Barry Quinn

Barry Quinn

Professor of Finance & Financial Technology, Director, Centre for Finance and Responsible Technology

Ulster University Business School

Biography

I help students prepare for a future shaped by data and technology, teaching them to experiment, to read evidence carefully, and to make decisions they can stand over. I want them to finish their courses able to do the work, but also curious, honest about what they don’t yet know, and willing to ask hard questions.

My own research sits at the meeting point of finance, statistics, and trustworthy machine learning, looking at markets, risk, and how algorithms behave when they meet regulation. I try to do it the way I teach it: assumptions made explicit, uncertainty taken seriously, and claims kept proportionate to what the evidence will bear.

Interests
  • Trustworthy AI in finance
  • Statistics, causal inference, and economic measurement
  • Teaching in the age of large language models
  • Bodhrán and Irish traditional music
Education
  • MSc Artificial Intelligence (Distinction), 2025

    Queen's University Belfast

  • Advanced Data Science Professional, 2023

    Royal Statistical Society

  • Chartered Statistician, 2019

    Royal Statistical Society

  • PhD in Finance, 2012

    Queen's University Belfast

  • MSc Quantitative Finance, 2006

    Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

  • BSc Accounting and Finance, 1995

    Queen's University Belfast

Skills

R

Expert

Statistics

Professional Expert

Python

Expert

Bodhrán

Professional Expert

Cloud Computing

Expert

Linux

Expert

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Professor of Finance & Financial Technology
Jun 2025 – Present Belfast
Director, Centre for Finance and Responsible Technology.
 
 
 
 
 
Senior Lecturer in Finance & Financial Technology
Sep 2020 – May 2025 Belfast
 
 
 
 
 
Lecturer in Finance
Sep 2010 – Aug 2020 Belfast
 
 
 
 
 
Retraining as an academic
Queen’s University Belfast and RMIT Melbourne
Jan 2006 – Aug 2010
 
 
 
 
 
Senior Liquidity Manager
Henderson Global Investors (now Janus Henderson)
Jan 1998 – Jan 2004 London
Forex risk trading and liquidity management for fund management.
 
 
 
 
 
Financial Consultant
City Financial
Sep 1995 – Jan 1998 London
Wealth management and consulting.