The hardest part about working in AI and analytics ‘is the data itself’

Silicon Republic April 5, 2023

Mastercard’s Ngoc Minh Tran discusses his role as lead data scientist and the growing importance of ‘model explainability’ in AI and analytics.

Ngoc Minh Tran is a lead data scientist at Mastercard. Minh Tran began his career with a PhD in applied statistics/machine learning and has over 15 years of experience working in data science, with a focus on classical machine learning, deep learning and reinforcement learning.

With an impressive portfolio of achievements – including being the lead inventor on 10 US patents in machine learning domains and the co-inventor of nine more – we asked Minh Tran about what a typical day is like for a lead data scientist.

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