Multiple papers accepted at AIES, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, ICML, AAAI, NeurIPS, and other international conferences and journals; co-organized several international workshops on XAI in Finance.
Research Experience
Currently an Executive Director at JP Morgan Chase & Co. and the Research Director of the Explainable AI Centre of Excellence; previously a research associate (postdoctoral researcher) at The Alan Turing Institute, working on the Finance and Economics research program; worked at Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore for about seven years, contributing to several projects in machine learning, audio signal processing, and embedded systems.
Education
PhD in Machine Learning from Queen Mary University of London, where he was a member of the Centre for Digital Music research group and the Machine Listening lab, focusing on developing post-hoc interpretable machine learning methods to understand the behavior of audio analysis models.
Background
Research interests include Generative AI, Trustworthy AI, Time Series Modelling, and Recommender Systems. Specializes in interpretable machine learning, particularly in the context of financial and computer vision applications. Currently an Executive Director at JP Morgan Chase & Co., and was a research associate at The Alan Turing Institute, working on the Finance and Economics research program.
Miscellany
Email: saum.bits@gmail.com; Google Scholar link; LinkedIn link