10 Capital One AI and data science leaders
Abhijit Bose, Senior Vice President, Head of Enterprise AI and ML Platforms, is the most senior of these Capital One AI and data science leaders, who also include senior directors and directors of machine learning, applied AI and generative AI. A reader can learn how AI and data science leaders work at Capital One from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Abhijit Bose
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Head of Enterprise AI and ML Platforms · Capital One
Abhijit Bose has been Senior Vice President, Head of Enterprise AI and ML Platforms at Capital One since February 2023, based in New York. Abhijit Bose was Managing Vice President, Head of Enterprise ML and AI Engineering at Capital One from 2020 to 2023 and East Coast Head of Engineering (Montreal, NYC, Pittsburgh) Facebook AI Research at Facebook from 2018 to 2020.
Chandra Soni
LinkedInExperience: Director - Generative AI · Capital One
Chandra Soni has been Director - Generative AI at Capital One since November 2024, based in Fremont, California. Chandra Soni was Engineering Leader, Machine Learning at Amazon from 2022 to 2024, Head of Engineering at Eargo from 2020 to 2022 and Director, Software Engineering at Macy's from 2018 to 2020.
Damian A. von Schoenborn
LinkedInExperience: Head of AI/ML for Deposit/Check, Customer, Account, and Operational Fraud Risk · Capital One
Damian A. von Schoenborn has been Head of AI/ML for Deposit/Check, Customer, Account, and Operational Fraud Risk at Capital One since March 2025, based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, and describes leading the team that develops AI/ML tools to set customer limits and funds availability and to alert Operations to risky transactions. Damian A. von Schoenborn was Head of Check Fraud Machine Learning at Capital One from 2023 to 2024.
Edwin Andrews
LinkedInExperience: Director of Machine Learning · Capital One
Edwin Andrews has been Director of Machine Learning at Capital One since August 2023, based in Great Falls, Virginia, leading a 25-person ML engineering organization of three teams that develops toolkits to accelerate AI/ML model development. Edwin Andrews was Director, Data Science Quantitative - Loss Model Development at Capital One from 2022 to 2023.
Jeff Rule
LinkedInExperience: Director of Machine Learning: Tools · Capital One
Jeff Rule has been Director of Machine Learning: Tools at Capital One since September 2023, based in the Washington DC-Baltimore Area, as a product director on the Machine Learning Experience team. Jeff Rule was Product Director: Emerging Payments at Capital One from 2021 to 2023 and Director: Product Development, Capital One Lab there from 2017 to 2021.
Kalanand Mishra, PhD
LinkedInExperience: Director, Applied AI - AI Foundations · Capital One
Kalanand Mishra has been Director, Applied AI - AI Foundations at Capital One since January 2024, based in Mountain View, California, and describes architecting FinTRec, a multi-channel recommender system. Kalanand Mishra was Head of ML Science for Experimentation and Recommendation at Capital One from 2019 to 2024 and Principal Scientist at Hearst from 2016 to 2018.
Nish Rana
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Enterprise Data & AI/ML · Capital One
Nish Rana has been Senior Director, Enterprise Data & AI/ML at Capital One since January 2024, based in New York, New York. Nish Rana was GCP Leader, AI Compute Strategy at Google from 2021 to 2024 and Principal, Core & Infra at Amazon Web Services (AWS) from 2019 to 2021.
Senthil Kumar
LinkedInExperience: Head of Emerging Research in AI Foundations · Capital One
Senthil Kumar has been Head of Emerging Research in AI Foundations at Capital One since January 2023 and also lists Director, Data Science at Capital One since 2014, based in Marlboro, New Jersey. Senthil Kumar was Chief Scientist, Center for Machine Learning at Capital One from 2020 to 2022 and Applied Scientist at Nokia Bell Labs from 1996 to 2014.
Sreeja Kaimal
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Enterprise Data and Machine Learning · Capital One
Sreeja Kaimal has been Senior Director, Enterprise Data and Machine Learning at Capital One since August 2023, based in the United States, and lists data privacy, governance and architecture as areas of focus. The listing places the role in the research department at Capital One.
Suman Garrepalli
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Sr Distinguished ML Engineer, AI Labs, Financial Services · Capital One
Suman Garrepalli has been Senior Director Sr Distinguished ML Engineer, AI Labs, Financial Services at Capital One since January 2025, based in the Washington DC-Baltimore Area. Suman Garrepalli was Director (Distinguished Engineer), B2B SaaS, Generative AI at Capital One from 2022 to 2025 and Senior Manager of ML Platforms there from 2021 to 2022.
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