Head of NLP, APAC
Refinitiv
Singapore
Mentoring Topics
Career Development, Finance & Administration, International Business, NLP, Project Management, Strategic Planning
Industry
Financial Services, Information Technology, Other
Short Bio
Salman Jaffer joined Refinitiv in Singapore in November 2017 as Tech Lead for EIT. His focus is Multi-Lingual Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence problems.
Previously, Salman was the Head of Data Science for Sentifi, a Swiss start-up based in Vietnam where he was responsible for managing teams developing Machine and Deep Learning models tagging over 1 billion documents a month.
Prior to this, Salman worked for Standard Chartered Bank, JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank in Singapore in Senior Risk, Program Management and Finance functions.
From 2005 through 2011, Salman was a Principal Consultant in London advising a number of investment banks including Citibank, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland. Salman has worked in Asia Pacific, North America and Europe.
Salman is a Chartered Financial Analyst and read Computer Science with Management at King’s College, London. Salman has a number of academic and professional qualifications in Management, Managing Innovation and Design Thinking, Computer Science, Finance, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.
Skilled in Technology, Management, Trading and Risk, Salman is a highly capable Financial Services Professional with an extensive history of delivering highly complex mid to large size projects across multiple geographies and cultures.