Dr Dhagash Mehta Head of Blackrock Applied Artificial Intelligence Research for Investment Management

Dr Dhagash Mehta Head of Blackrock Applied Artificial Intelligence Research for Investment Management

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Dr. Mehta is the Head of Applied AI, GenAI and Responsivle AI Research (Investment Management) at Blackrock Inc. and an Editorial Board Member at the Journal of Financial Data Science and Journal of Impact and ESG Investing.

Previously he was a Senior Manager, Investment Strategist (Machine Learning – Asset Allocation) at Investment Strategy Group at The Vanguard Group. Before joining Vanguard, he was a Senior Research Scientist at United Technologies (UTX) Research Center, now called Raytheon Tech Research Center.. Prior to that, he was a Research Professor at Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics in conjunction with Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Notre Dame. He was a Fields Institute Postdoc Fellow for the Thematic Program on Computer Algebra at Fields Institute, Toronto, in Fall 2015 and a Visiting Fellow at Simons Institute for Theory of Computing at Berkeley in Fall 2014. Previously, he has held various research positions at the University of Cambridge (the UK), Imperial College London (the UK), the University of Adelaide (Australia), Syracuse University (USA) and National University of Ireland Maynooth (Ireland).

Dr. Mehta’s research areas are AI, Generative AI and Reaponsible AI and their applications to quantitative finance, and computational mathematics, science and engineering.

Scholar Google page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=J7fyX_sAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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