Balaji Gopalakrishnan, PhD, FRM in

Balaji Gopalakrishnan, PhD, FRM

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Quant Analytics Director, Head of Generative AI, Consumer Lines of Business at Wells Fargo
📍 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Balaji Gopalakrishnan leads Generative AI for Consumer Lines of Business at Wells Fargo, leveraging his deep expertise in AI, machine learning, and quantitative analytics. With a PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology, his career includes senior AI leadership roles at Vanguard and SAS. Colleagues describe him as a brilliant, strategic, and inspiring leader and mentor.

His foundational academic work was in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization, which underpins his approach to solving complex, large-scale problems.

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Experience
23 Years
Current Role
Quant Analytics Director, Head of Generative AI, Consumer Lines of Business
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Generative AI in Banking
Currently leads GenAI for consumer banking, lending, and investments at Wells Fargo and is actively hiring senior contributors for his team.
Building Data Science Teams
Co-authored a presentation on building world-class data science teams, focusing on hiring, engagement strategies, and fostering internal talent development.
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Career

Work history

7-2024
Quant Analytics Director, Head of Generative AI, Consumer Lines of Business
Wells Fargo
10-2023
Head of AI/ML for Personal Investor, Marketing Science, and Applied Research
Vanguard
4-2022 - 11-2023
Head of ML - Enterprise AI, RIG, and Corporate Functions
Vanguard
10-2021 - 4-2022
SVP, Head of Enterprise NLP, Knowledge Graphs, and Applied AI Research
Wells Fargo
10-2018 - 10-2021
SVP, Head of Machine Learning
Wells Fargo
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Education
1997 - 2002
PhD
Georgia Institute of Technology
1997 - 2002
MS
Georgia Institute of Technology
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