Ryan Wesslen

Ryan Wesslen

Adjunct Faculty
School of Data Science

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

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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