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Professor Frank Zheng
Executive Leadership
Biography
Chief Scientist, Chair of Academic Committee. Sets the institute's AI technical roadmap. Leads vertical LLM for offshore finance, green computing and cross-border capital AI engines. Chairs major project initiation and researcher academic reviews.
Research areas
Related projects
Institute research topics aligned with the broad areas identified in this biography; these are not confirmed personal project assignments.
Offshore Finance & Cross-border Capital AI
- AI-KYC/KYB & UBO identification
- Extract ultimate beneficial owners from registry files, trust deeds and nominee structures; screen OFAC/UN lists; output FIU-ready reports.
- Fund SPC/VCIC & ILS document intelligence
- Parse PPMs, subscription and custody agreements; flag clause risks; generate CIMA and BMA filings.
- Cross-border AML monitoring
- Risk models tuned to island remittance, fund and reinsurance flows, reducing correspondent-bank de-risking.
- CRS / AEOI tax compliance
- Classify tax residency and controlling persons, validate CRS returns, assist trusts and family offices.
- Digital assets, stablecoin & CBDC sandbox
- Sand Dollar and Cayman digital-asset frameworks; transaction tracing and policy simulation for regulators.
- Catastrophe reinsurance pricing
- Hurricane and sea-level data for ILS and sidecar loss simulation, policy parsing and claims automation.
- Caribbean Offshore Legal AI
- A jurisdiction-isolated legal model on Cayman, BVI trust and insurance law, with lawyer review loops.
- Financial data sovereignty & local compute
- Keep sensitive financial data on-island with privately deployed vertical models in sovereign data centers.
Regional Shared Foundations
- Climate, hurricane & sea-level risk maps
- AI forecasting for catastrophe insurance, resort real estate and infrastructure.
- Island microgrids, solar & storage
- AI dispatch for green compute serving offshore data centers and resort parks.
- Caribbean multilingual foundation models
- Speech and document models for English, Spanish, French, Dutch and Creole.
- Lightweight AI toolkit for small businesses
- Simple tools for guesthouses, local services and family offices.