Capital One has announced the award recipients for the 2024 academic year out of the Center for AI and Responsible Financial Innovation at Columbia University.
The Center was created in January 2024 to accelerate research, education, and the responsible advancement of AI in financial services.
The initiatives include 2 PhD fellowships and 2 faculty-led research projects that are selected and funded annually.
The two PhD fellows, Leonardo Toso and Sachit Menon, will research Bayesian priors for efficient multi-task representation learning and trustworthy decision-making in artificial intelligence respectively.
The two faculty-led research awards will be offered to Richard Zemel and Anish Agarwal to research a framework for responsible LLM deployment in a changing world and a user session-level counterfactual simulator respectively.
The goal of the research led by Anish Agarwal is to build a counterfactual simulator that creates the predicted trajectory of a user if a specific text/image is shown in real-time during a session.
Capital One’s partnership with Columbia University allows them to broaden their AI research efforts and advance new capabilities to better serve customers.
These initiatives create pathways to engage talent in new ways and support emerging research in the field of financial services.
These awards were selected after thoughtful consideration and offer opportunities for emerging research in the financial services industry.
The Center for AI and Responsible Financial Innovation will continue to support emerging research in the field of financial services and promote its responsible advancement.