Woods College Faculty

Nurtekin Savas

Part-time Faculty

M.S. in Applied Analytics Program

Profile

Nurketin Savas is the Vice President and Head of Enterprise Data Science at Capital One.  

Nurtekin leads the Enterprise Data Science team at Capital One, building, deploying, and managing machine learning and AI use cases. Prior to Capital One, Nurtekin was the Head of the AI Center of Excellence at Fidelity Investment's retail business, Head of ML Optimization and Data Science at Amazon's Payment Products division, and Head of Analytics at Visa (risk management and product). Nurtekin's expertise spans a wide range in the field of data science and machine learning, including recommendations, personalization, conversational AI, authentication, fraud, data centric AI, search, AI based call center agent and field rep/sales tools, document/image processing, statistical models, business forecasting, risk modeling, and ad optimization.