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Zach Golkhou
Dr. Zach Golkhou is Director of Generative AI and Data Science for Asset & Wealth Management at J.P. Morgan, and a recognized leader in applied AI/ML with over a decade of experience driving innovation across finance, big tech, and scientific research. He holds a Ph.D. in Astrophysics and an M.S. in AI & Robotics, and has been honored with the Moore-Sloan Research Fellowship, the Innovation in Data Science Prize, the NASA Fermi Award, and the DiRAC Fellowship in Physics.
With over 100 authored publications and several patented AI/ML frameworks, Dr. Golkhou has advanced the frontiers of AI in both industry and science -- specializing in building scalable AI/ML models for quantitative finance, generative and agentic AI, deep reinforcement learning, time-series modeling, high-performance computing, and quantum machine learning.