Organizing Committee

Vice President Data Scientist, AI  Center of Excellence (AI CoE), U.S. Bank

Specializes in building AI applications for financial services. Former senior scientist at Ameriprise Financial. Her expertise spans language models, computer vision, multimodal architectures, generative AI, and ensemble methods for financial document analysis, credit risk assessment, and fraud detection. 

Head of Applied AI Research, Investment Management, BlackRock, Inc.

Specializes in AI/ML research, quantitative finance and computational mathematics. Former research at Vanguard Group and at United Technologies Research Center. Held academic positions at University of Notre Dame, North Carolina State University, The University of Cambridge, Syracuse University, etc.

Dean’s Associate Professor Information Systems, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

Specializes in building emerging AI/ML tools and techniques. Former Executive Head of AI and Machine Learning for Client Protection at Bank of America Corporation, where she was responsible for leading the development of solutions for fraud detection, prevention and operational improvement. 

Senior Technical Leader, Applied Research, Google

Specializes on leveraging multimodal AI, graph foundation models (GFMs), and adversarial red teaming to combat sophisticated invalid tradic (IVT) and emerging AI-generated fraud threats. Prior leadership roles at eBay, Capital One, and served as an independent fraud and AML consultant for startups.

Head of AIML Research and Methodology, Morgan Stanley

Specializes in building emerging AI/ML tools and techniques. Former Executive Head of AI and Machine Learning for Client Protection at Bank of America Corporation, where she was responsible for leading the development of solutions for fraud detection, prevention and operational improvement. 

Assistant Professor Computer Science, University of Southern California (USC)

Leads the FORTIS Lab (Foundations Of Robust Trustworthy Intelligent Systems), focusing on trustworthy, robust, and edicient AI. His research spans anomaly and out-of-distribution detection, graph learning, large language and generative models for societal applications, and scalable open source ML systems.

Chief Scientist, Center for Machine Learning, Capital One

Specializes in applying Machine Learning and AI to various business problems. Prior to joining Capital One, worked with Bell Laboratories to develop new patented technologies and products.