Eren Kurshan
Dr. Eren Kurshan is an AI researcher and technology executive focused on building large-scale industrial AI systems. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, Master's in Computer Science and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering.
Kurshan started her career as a researcher at IBM T.J. Watson Research Labs. Following her earlier roles as Chief of Staff to IBM's Global CINO and Technical Strategist to the J.P. Morgans CIO, she has been serving as a technology executive at Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Bank of America. She was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy from 2015 to 2016 and taught as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University from 2014 to 2020.
During her time at Bank of America Kurshan led the development of the firms first in-house AI and machine learning based payment processing infrastructure including fraud and financial crime models for individual payment channels (such as credit, debit, person-to-person mobile payments, online banking transactions etc), operational optimization models (for system and process optimization) and cross-channel models (such as account takeover fraud and financial scams).
Kurshan's research interests include large-scale industrial AI system development, computer system design and optimization, safe and aligned AI. She published over 90 peer reviewed technical publications and holds ~265 patents. She has served as an associate editor of several IEEE and ACM journals and transactions (IEEE Transactions on Emerging Technologies in Computing, IEEE Transactions on Computers, ACM Journal of Low Power Electronics, and the ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computing) and serves as an executive committee member of the ACM-W (ACM's Women organization).
Kurshan received the Best Paper Award from IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Design, IEEE Micro Top Picks - Most Significant and Relevant Studies Selection and the Best Paper Award from IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics. She was recognized as a Top 3 inventor by Bank of America and received licensing and inventor awards from IBM. She received Outstanding Research Accomplishment Awards from IBM for her work on low power and reliable computing system design and emerging technology development respectively.
In 2024 she received the "Inventor of the Year Award" from New York Intellectual Property and Law Association for her inventions in financial crime detection through AI/ML-based computing systems. Kurshan is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and Distinguished Speaker of the ACM, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS), IEEE Systems Council (SysCons) and IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE). She is Distinguished Contributor of the IEEE Computer Society (SC). She serves as an Alumni Advisory Board Member for UCLA Computer Science Department and advisory committee member for Princeton Keller Center for Entrepreneurship eLab Program.
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