Member profile
Dr. Marissa Lashley
Executive Leadership
Biography
Former Dean of Information Engineering, University of the West Indies. Leader in Caribbean digital economy. Oversees overall institute operation, external partnership and strategy delivery.
Research areas
Related projects
Institute research topics aligned with the broad areas identified in this biography; these are not confirmed personal project assignments.
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.
Governance, Compliance & Ethics
- Offshore-finance AI regulatory framework
- Benchmarked to BMA and CIMA guidance, compatible with FATF and the EU AI Act.
- Data protection & cross-border data handbook
- Compliance guides aligned with each jurisdiction's data protection laws.
- Explainability, audit trail & accountability
- Mechanisms that address regulators' distrust of black-box AI.
- Inclusive AI credit scoring
- Financial inclusion for unbanked and low-income island residents without traditional credit files.