The Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science Dean's Lecture Series

The Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science Dean’s Lecture Series brings STEM innovators and thought leaders together with students and faculty to share wisdom, inspire discovery, and nurture an entrepreneurial spirit to help build a prominent school of engineering and science.
The 2023 Dean's Lecture Series
Artificial Intelligence in Finance: Examples and Discussion
in partnership with Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Manuela Veloso, Ph.D.
Head of AI Research, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
This talk discussed examples of recent artificial intelligence (AI) research and practices within the financial sector, addressing data, reasoning and execution of various AI approaches utilized to service and assist humans in their complex tasks. Presented projects covered AI for data discovery, data standardization, synthetic data, behavior understanding, multi-agent simulations and explainability.
About the Speaker
Manuela Veloso is Head of J.P. Morgan Chase AI Research and Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emerita at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was previously a faculty member in the Computer Science Department and Head of the Machine Learning Department. Her recent interests are in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Symbiotic Human-Robot Autonomy, Continuous Learning Systems, and AI in Finance. She is the past President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the co-founder and a past President of the RoboCup Federation. In her career she has received numerous awards and honors, including: National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Allen Newell Medal for Excellence in Research, Radcliffe Fellow, Einstein Chair Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award. Veloso is a Fellow of AAAI, AAAS, ACM, and IEEE. She was elected in 2022 to the National Academy of Engineering for her “contributions to artificial intelligence and its applications in robotics and the financial service industry.”
Past Speakers
2023 Special Lecture:
Technologies within Electronic Warfare at L3Harris
Jennifer Lewis
President of Electronic Warfare
Eva Bica-Winterling
General Manager, Mission Solutions, Electronic Warfare
Drew Trainor
Chief Engineer, Electronic Warfare
Paul DeLia
Director of Strategy Business Development, Electronic Warfare
2022 Dean's Lecture Series:
Transforming State-of-the-Art Science into Technologies for Global Applications
William McGann, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer, Quantum Computing Inc.
2020 Dean's Lecture Series:
Fighting COVID-19 with Innovation—A Race Against Time
Pam Cheng '92 M.Eng. '95
Executive Vice President for Global Operations and Information Technology, AstraZeneca
2021 Dean's Lecture Series:
BioEngineering of Human Tissues
Joe Yaccarino '88
President and CEO, MTF Biologics
2019 Dean's Lecture Series:
Breaking Human Interaction Barriers – AI, HoloLens and Beyond
Dr. Xuedong Huang
Chief Speech Scientist, Technical Fellow in Cloud and AI Lead of Speech and Language Group, Microsoft
2018 Dean's Lecture Series:
Engineering to Benefit Humanity
Dr. Robert E. Fischell
Physicist and Inventor