Professional Experience

Kurshan started her career as a researcher at IBM T.J. Watson Research Labs focusing on full stack system optimization techniques (reliability, energy efficiency and security) for IBM's server systems. She held various  leadership roles in systems research and development including 3D-ICs (deployed across a broad range of applications from quantum computing, to flash memory, cell phones and implantable medical devices such as pacemakers)

Following her earlier roles as the Chief of Staff to IBM's Global CINO and Technical Strategist to  J.P.Morgan's CIO, she has been serving as an innovation/technology executive (at Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Princeton, Columbia University and Bank of America). 

During her time at Bank of America, Kurshan led the development of the firms first in-house AI/ML-based payment processing system including fraud and financial crime models for individual payment channels (such as credit card, debit/ATM, 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, elderly fraud and financial scams).  Later, at Morgan Stanley she focused on building novel AI systems for financial crime detection (anti money laundering systems), socially responsible investing and AI alignment.

Kurshan was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy and taught as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Yale Business School.