🟢 Head of Data Science · S&P Global · New York

Urjit Patel

Building AI systems that make sense of markets, language, and risk. Researching LLMs, multimodal models, and RAG at the frontier of finance.

10+
Years in AI
8+
Publications
2
US Patents
$10M+
Revenue Impact
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01 — About me

Building AI at the
intersection of finance

I'm a data scientist and AI researcher with 10+ years of experience applying machine learning to high-stakes problems. Currently Head of Data Science at S&P Global, directing AI strategy across Investor Sentiment, Cybersecurity, ESG, and Generative AI — with a $10M+ yearly revenue impact through pricing optimization.

Before S&P, I worked at Praedicat detecting emerging risks in scientific literature using deep learning & NLP. I hold an M.Sc. in Data Science from NYU (GPA 3.81), where I was a Teaching Assistant for Prof. Yann LeCun's legendary Deep Learning class and did NLP research under Prof. Kyunghyun Cho.

I've filed 2 US Patents, published at IEEE and ACM conferences, and been recognized with multiple awards including the S&P Global Hall of Fame. My current research explores Knowledge Graphs, cost-efficient LVLMs, and RAG for long-context financial documents.

🤖 LLMs / GPT-4 / LLaMA 📊 RAG / LlamaIndex 🔬 LoRA / PEFT / RLHF 🧠 NLP / Transformers 👁️ Vision LLMs / CLIP 📈 Time Series 🕸️ Knowledge Graphs 🐍 Python / PyTorch 🤗 HuggingFace 🦜 LangChain 🗄️ Pinecone / FAISS ☁️ Azure / AWS / GCP 🐳 Docker / Kubernetes ❄️ Databricks / Snowflake
Career journey
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Head of Data Science
S&P Global — Ratings Commercial
Nov 2024 – Present
Directing AI-driven commercial products. $10M+ revenue impact through pricing optimization and customer tiering across North America & EMEA.
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Lead Data Scientist
S&P Global
Sep 2021 – Oct 2024
Built LLM for cyber signal detection (PEFT/LoRA). Architected internal RAG insight tool. Filed 2 US Patents in AI/GenAI.
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Senior Data Scientist
S&P Global
Sep 2019 – Aug 2021
NLP models for market insights from news, social media & transcripts. Financial forecasting models outperforming human analysts.
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Data Scientist
Praedicat, Inc — Los Angeles
July 2017 – Sep 2019
Deep learning & NLP for emerging risk detection from PubMed scientific literature. Built CoMeta and ChemMeta product features.
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M.Sc. Data Science — GPA 3.81
New York University, Center for Data Science
Sep 2015 – May 2017
TA for Prof. Yann LeCun (Deep Learning). Research under Prof. Kyunghyun Cho. NLP work on multi-document summarization with LSTM.
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Software Engineer
Wipro Technologies — India
July 2013 – July 2015
End-to-end software engineering projects in Agile — from requirements to production deployment.
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Hall of Fame Award
S&P Global
January 2025
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Ratings Impact Award — Innovation
S&P Global
January 2025
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S&P Global Inventor Award
S&P Global — AI & GenAI Patents
September 2021
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Invited Speaker
SoCal AI & Data Science Conf · Deep Learning for NLP
November 2018
02 — Research

Publications &
Patents

IEEE and ACM publications spanning multimodal LLMs, RAG systems, cybersecurity AI, and financial ML. Two US Patents filed in AI & GenAI.

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⚡ Currently Researching

Pushing the frontier where language meets vision meets financial reasoning.

Knowledge Graphs Cost-efficient LVLMs Long-context Financial RAG
03 — Projects

Things I've
Built & Researched

A selection of research systems and AI tools spanning finance, cybersecurity, and multimodal intelligence.

04 — Blog

Thoughts &
Writing

Sharing what I learn at the frontier of AI, finance, and research. Deep dives, tutorials, and opinions.

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Blog launching soon

Working on deep-dive articles about LLMs, RAG, multimodal AI, and practical ML in finance. Be the first to read.

05 — Connect

Let's Build
Something Together

Get in Touch

Whether you want to collaborate on research, discuss AI in finance, explore speaking opportunities, or just geek out about LLMs — I'd love to hear from you.