Vision

To work on emerging problems in the banking sector and undertake cutting-edge research, bringing advanced Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning, and Data Science technologies for Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI).

Key Focus Areas

• Bring advanced AI/ML, and Data Science technologies for Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) through collaborative projects
• Create a multidisciplinary space for innovation and ideation for industry and academia.
• Facilitate Executive Education Programs in the BFSI sector through emerging AI/ML and Data Science technologies for professionals.

Key Highlights

• Relevant research projects have been taken up in the field of Automatic Speech Recognition, Personalized Adaptive Learning, Trustworthy AI for safety-critical systems, etc.
•  The short-term training program for the SBI team has been initiated; teaching modules like AI in banking, Blockchain, Financial Digital Public Goods, Cloud Computing & related technology, etc. are being offered.

Proposed Impact

• Harnessing futuristic technology
  • Latest causal, counterfactual modelling for robust decision-making.
  • Harnessing large pre-trained language models for search over internal knowledge resources.
  • Ushering digital transformation of Banks in the delivery of hyper-personalized banking and financial services for their customers.
  • Latest advances in deep generative models for creating data for fraud detection, and federated learning for privacy-preserving model training.
  • Data-driven and cutting-edge trading models, and personalized investment and trading experiences for customers.
• Outreach and cross-pollination of ideas in the BFSI sector.
• World-class research and publications in top-tier venues.
• Workshops and seminars on cutting-edge technology.
• Retention of talent, brand building, and employee satisfaction of SBI.