Ryan Wesslen is executive director and principal of NLP & GenAI in Wells Fargo’s enterprise data science organization.
Ryan previously served as ML engineer and customer lead at Explosion. He also worked nearly a decade at Bank of America where he managed a team of NLP data scientists and held various roles in credit risk analytics and modeling.
Ryan holds a Ph.D. in computing and information systems and master’s degrees in economics, financial mathematics, and data science. He has published 20+ articles in human-computer interaction and computational social science with 750+ citations and teaches as an adjunct faculty member at UNC Charlotte’s School of Data Science.
He has served on UNC Chapel Hill’s economics department alumni advisory board for 10+ years and currently serves as the board’s co-chair.