Dr. Cristián Bravo is Professor and the Canada Research Chair in Banking and Insurance Analytics at Western University, Canada, where he also serves as the Director of the Banking Analytics Lab. His research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, analytics, and banking, researching how techniques such as multimodal deep learning, social network analysis, and causal inference can be used to understand relations between consumers and financial institutions. He has close to 100 academic works in high-impact journals and conferences in operational research, finance, and computer science. He serves as senior area chair of the KDD conference, the premier analytics conference worldwide, and as editorial board member in Applied Soft Computing and the Journal of Business Analytics. He is the co-author of the books “Profit-Driven Business Analytics”, which has sold over 6,000 copies to date, and “Deep Learning in Banking”, to be published by Wiley. Dr. Bravo has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, WIRED, RFE (France), CTV, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, the Financial Post, and Global News, among other international media. He is also a regular panelist at the CBC News’ Weekend Business Panel where he discusses the latest news in Banking, Finance and Artificial Intelligence. He can be reached via LinkedIn, by Bluesky @cribravo.bsky.social, or through his lab’s website at https://thebal.ai.