John Ashley
John Ashley (he/him) leads the solution architecture function for NVIDIA's global public sector organization and is part of the leadership team for the worldwide NVIDIA Technology Centers. He is especially focused on helping governments improve the security, safety, health and economic well-being of the people they serve. John was formerly the general manager of the Global Financial Services and Technology team at NVIDIA, focused on global trends and directions in accelerated compute and AI for the entire sector – from hedge funds, fintech and banking to insurance. He also started and led the Professional Services Deep Learning Practice for NVIDIA and the NVIDIA Deep Learning Professional Services Partner program; managed the relationship with IBM’s Software and Cognitive groups; was a senior solutions architect covering financial services based in New York and then London; and supported NVIDIA’s work with the Square Kilometer Array radio astronomy programs. He holds a doctorate in computational sciences and informatics, and BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering. Prior to joining NVIDIA, his experience can best be described as varied – he has been a data scientist, project manager, systems architect, DBA and developer – working in vendor, consulting and end-user firms in utilities, government and finance. He holds a U.S. patent in predictive analytics.
Risky Business: Latest Benchmarks Show How Financial Industry Can Harness NVIDIA DGX Platform to Better Manage Market Uncertainty
Amid increasing market volatility, financial risk managers are looking for faster, better market analytics. Today that’s served up by advanced risk algorithms running on the fastest parallel computing systems. Boosting… Read article >
What Is Explainable AI?
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A Capital Calculator: Upstart Credits AI with Advancing Loans
With two early hits and the promise of more to come, it feels like a whole new ballgame in lending for Grant Schneider. The AI models he helped create as… Read article >
American Express Adopts NVIDIA AI to Help Prevent Fraud and Foil Cybercrime
Financial fraud is surging along with waves of cybersecurity breaches. Cybercrime cost the global economy $600 billion annually, or 0.8 percent of worldwide GDP, according to an estimate in 2018… Read article >
Data Science Powers AI Breakthroughs in Financial Services and Beyond
Data science is turning one of the world’s oldest industries inside out by applying accelerated computing to legacy financial data. In an industry used to intensive computation, data scientists are… Read article >
AI Scorekeeper: Scotiabank Sharpens the Pencil in Credit Risk
Paul Edwards is helping carry the age-old business of giving loans into the modern era of AI. Edwards started his career modeling animal behavior as a Ph.D. in numerical ecology.… Read article >
Banking on AI: RBC Builds a DGX-Powered Private Cloud
Royal Bank of Canada built an NVIDIA DGX-powered cloud and tied it to a strategic investment in AI. Despite headwinds from a global pandemic, it will further enable RBC to… Read article >
How American Express Uses Deep Learning for Better Decision Making
Financial fraud is on the rise. As the number of global transactions increase and digital technology advances, the complexity and frequency of fraudulent schemes are keeping pace. Security company McAfee… Read article >
NVIDIA Delivers More Than 6,000x Speedup on Key Algorithm for Hedge Funds
NVIDIA’s AI platform is delivering more than 6,000x acceleration for running an algorithm that the hedge fund industry uses to benchmark backtesting of trading strategies. This enormous GPU-accelerated speedup has… Read article >