MPhil-PhD transfer presentation
When: Fri, 1st Mar 2019, 2.00pm
Where: C323 (3rd Floor, Tait Building)
Who: Charitos Charitou; City, University of London
Title: Deep Learning for Compliance: “Application of machine learning to online gambling data to identify money laundering”
Abstract: Most of the current online gambling operators are using handcrafted basic rules for their anti money laundering (AML) strategy. These methods are not enough anymore for identifying complex fraudulent activities. Kindred group entered into research collaboration with City University and the main goal is to effectively use machine learning to detect money laundering. Understanding the needs of the industry and what the industry stakeholders believe was a priority. A series of interviews with various stakeholders of the gambling industry took place and the findings were published earlier this year in the form of a white paper.
The second part of the research involved the analysis and evaluation of the gambling data that were provided by Kindred. We present how the imbalanced dataset problem was tackled, and the new experimental dataset that was created for supervised learning. The performance of Logistic Regression (LR), Random Forest (RF) and Multilayer perceptron (MLP) was examined and compared. Our results, showed that Random Forest was the best model for predicting the normal players, while the MLP managed to detect suspicious players with the higher accuracy. Finally, the sequential relationship of the data was investigated using discrete and continuous Hidden Markov Models (HMM).
All welcome!
