Ryan Wesslen

Ryan Wesslen

Adjunct Faculty
School of Data Science

Education: Ph.D. Computing and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte; M.A. Economics, New York University; M.S. Financial Mathematics, NC State; M.S. Data Science and Business Analytics, UNC Charlotte

Courses Taught:

  • DSBA5122: Visual Analytics; DSBA6010: Special Topics – Bayesian Statistics; DSBA6188: Text Mining and Information Retrieval; DSBA6211: Advanced Business Analytics; DSBA6010: Special Topics – Applications of Large Language Models

Biography:
Ryan Wesslen is the executive director and principal of NLP & GenAI in Wells Fargo’s enterprise data science organization. He previously served as a machine learning engineer and customer lead at ExplosionAI. Ryan also worked at Bank of America where he managed a team of NLP data scientists and held various roles in credit risk analytics and modeling.

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