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  • Oct
    7

    CS Seminar: How AI is Transforming Financial Services - 3 applications and 3 challenges (Jay Budzik)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    Monday / CS Seminar
    October 7th / 12:00 PM
    Hybrid / Mudd 3514

    Speaker
    Jay Budzik, Fifth Third Bank

    Talk Title
    How AI is Transforming Financial Services - 3 applications and 3 challenges

    Abstract
    AI is transforming many industries, and financial services is no exception. But banking is high-stakes and highly-regulated. As such, progress adopting AI in finance has been slow compared to other industries. Concerns over transparency, bias and fairness, and risk of inaccuracies have prevented banks from using AI to enhance products and services. However, new methods have emerged that make banking ripe for AI transformation now more than ever before. This talk will describe how we've overcome challenges to unlock the benefits of AI even in highly-regulated financial services applications. I'll describe three applications in which AI is rapidly transforming banking: consumer lending, customer service, and back office/operations, with case studies and examples of real-world impact. I will show how game-theoretic methods are used to explain the outputs of even complex models to everyday people. I'll describe how we make models more fair and equitable, leading to improved outcomes for women and people of color. Finally, I'll describe how predetermined conversation flows and human-machine collaborations are being used to manage risk of inaccuracies so that even the latest GPT models can be used safely. I'll conclude each section with open research questions and leave plenty of time for Q&A.

    Biography
    Jay Budzik is Senior Vice President, Director AI/ML Model Development and Operations at Fifth Third Bank. Jay oversees AI transformation for consumer products and operations for this Fortune 500 bank with over $200B in assets. Prior to Fifth Third, Jay was CTO at Zest AI, where he led the product, engineering and data science teams that pioneered the use of AI in consumer lending. Zest models are currently used to underwrite over $1 trillion USD in consumer loans annually for clients such as Citibank, Freddie Mac, Discover, Truist, and 100s of credit unions. Earlier in his career, Jay founded and/or served as CTO of several enterprise software companies that used AI to create competitive advantage in the digital advertising and media industries. Jay holds over 40 patents related to his work in AI and machine learning. He earned a Ph. D. in Computer Science from Northwestern University where he was President’s Fellow, and a B. S. with honors in Computer Science from The University of Chicago. He lives in Pasadena, California.

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  • Oct
    7

    2024 Fall Tech Career Fair

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    1:00 PM Norris University Center

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    TIME Monday, October 7, 2024 at 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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  • Oct
    9

    CS Seminar: Presenting Multiagent Challenges in Team Sports Analytics (David Radke)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Wednesday, October 9, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Oct
    14

    CS Seminar: Tackling Challenges in Deploying Modern Cryptography (Xiao Wang)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Monday, October 14, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Oct
    15

    IEEE EMBS Body Sensor Networks (BSN) 2024

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    All Day 300 E Ohio St

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    TIME Tuesday, October 15, 2024

    LOCATION 300 E Ohio St   

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  • Oct
    16

    IEEE EMBS Body Sensor Networks (BSN) 2024

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    All Day 300 E Ohio St

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    TIME Wednesday, October 16, 2024

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  • Oct
    16

    CS Seminar: The Rational Programmer, A Method for Investigating Programming Language Pragmatics (Christos Dimoulas)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Oct
    17

    IEEE EMBS Body Sensor Networks (BSN) 2024

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    All Day 300 E Ohio St

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    TIME Thursday, October 17, 2024

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  • Oct
    21

    CS Seminar

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Monday, October 21, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Oct
    23

    CS Seminar:

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    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Wednesday, October 23, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Oct
    25

    CS Seminar: Research ethics and generative artificial intelligence (Mohammad Hosseini)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Friday, October 25, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Oct
    28

    CS Seminar

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    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Monday, October 28, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Oct
    30

    CS Seminar: Lars Bergstrom

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Oct
    31

    Bagel Thursday

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    9:00 AM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Thursday, October 31, 2024 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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  • Nov
    4

    CS Seminar

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    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Monday, November 4, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Nov
    6

    CS Distinguished Lecture: Nate Foster

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Nov
    11

    CS Seminar

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    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Monday, November 11, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Nov
    13

    CS Distinguished Lecture: Kristin Lauter

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Wednesday, November 13, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Nov
    18

    CS Distinguished Lecture: Kyros Kutulakos

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Monday, November 18, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Nov
    20

    CS Seminar

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    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Nov
    21

    Bagel Thursday

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    9:00 AM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Thursday, November 21, 2024 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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  • Nov
    25

    CS Seminar

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Monday, November 25, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Nov
    27

    CS Seminar

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Wednesday, November 27, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Dec
    4

    CS Seminar: Mike Franklin

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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