Seemit Sheth

Chief AI Officer, USAA Bank

Seemit is an accomplished data science leader in financial services with passion to create data science products that transform the business and mentoring. Currently, he is a member of the executive management group and head of the modeling and machine learning organization at USAA. Prior to USAA, Seemit was at Capital One for 19 years where he held various data science leadership roles and played a key role in successfully driving machine learning transformation for Capital One. Seemit is one of the pioneers in adoption of experimental designs to financial services and has done many innovations in that area to enable that. Over the career spanning 20+ years, Seemit has developed world-class organizations and mentored large number of leaders who are collectively elevating data science culture in financial services and beyond. 

Seemit has a master's degree in mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai, and a master's and PhD (ABD) in statistics from ODU, Virginia. Some of Seemit's other interests include tennis and Indian classical drum called tabla.