Dr. Sammy Assefa is SVP, Head of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at U.S. Bank with a focus on research, development and Innovation. Prior to joining U.S. Bank, he was an executive director of AI Research at J.P. Morgan where he established and led teams in London and New York on both the applied and research priorities of using advanced analytics, AI & ML to solve complex financial problems. He also served as a Vice President of AI/ML & Data Science at Barclays Bank in London with a focus on payments and card transaction intelligence. Sammy completed his PhD and MPhil research at the University of Cambridge in the UK where he developed novel algorithms for the analysis of large-scale Omics sequence data (including genomic/transcriptomic data).