Woods College Faculty

Ashuraj Sirohi

Adjunct Faculty

M.S. in Applied Economics Program

Profile

My interests are in understanding the ever increasing use of data and techniques in finance.

Over the years, I have enabled a number of finance and technology firms to understand and manage risks arising from big data and the use of modeling techniques.

At present, I am the Chief Risk Officer at Mascoma Bank. The use of consumer data for credit decisioning and numerous other use cases when using AI/ML and big data techniques pose a unique set of opportunities for the industry. The firms can better serve customers by understanding and managing this risk. An emerging opportunity of AI/ML techniques is online fraud monitoring and detecting bad actors and suspicious activities.

Prior to Mascoma Bank, I worked at Citizens Bank in model risk management, a front-office quantitative analytics role at UBS Investment bank, John Hancock, Harvard University endowment, a hedge fund, software firm amongst others.