About Jaime Ferreira

Currently heading Feedzai’s worldwide Data Science team in Professional Services, Jaime’s team is responsible for effectively delivering and enabling clients with high-quality Fraud detection models on critical and demanding clients, including several Tier 1 banks and market leader merchants and acquirers. His focus on delivery effectiveness and quality leads his team to continuously improve and keep up with the state-of-the-art on the field. Additionally, he is also responsible to globally support Feedzai sales team both on prospective clients and conferences.

Jaime has a strong background on machine learning and artificial intelligence, having participated in national and European projects, co-authoring several papers, and focused his thesis on online unsupervised learning in high dimensions, using an online Gaussian mixture model approach applied to big data, and achieving speedups in performance of up to 40x compared with state-of-the-art at improved numerical stability.

Enthusiast for science and technology, Jaime takes heavy interest in machine learning and AI, mainly in the fields of speech processing and computer vision, and Robotics.