Why Does a Bank Need a Chief Scientist?

Capital One executive profile examines role of chief scientist in banking.

This article is brought to you by Capital One.After five years leading natural language understanding and eventually the entire Alexa AI organization at Amazon, Prem Natarajan made a nontraditional move: He became Chief Scientist at a bank. Not just any bank: Capital One, a financial institution serving over 100 million customers, helping everyday Americans manage their financial lives.For Natarajan, a veteran of DARPA-funded research and academia who had watched machine learning evolve from tas