Ashit Talukder

Head of Machine Learning – Moody’s Analytics Accelerator at Moody's

Ashit Talukder heads the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) initiatives at Moody’s. His team develops new AI and ML driven products, solutions, and capabilities for financial risk analytics, workflow automation, and human-machine collaborative systems that improve efficiencies for analytics processes from structured and unstructured data. Ashit has a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and 20+ years of experience in AI, Machine Learning, and NLP applied R&D. He previously led AI, ML research initiatives at Jet Propulsion Laboratory / NASA, led DARPA-sponsored research on autonomy, autonomous systems, data mining, and started the Data Science Program at NIST as Program Director and Division Director for the Information Access Division with over 100 research staff.