Anu Pathria has pioneered several path breaking Artificial Intelligence based research in the areas of predictive modeling, fraud detection and information extraction. A couple of his creations have been widely deployed in the corporate world. Anu was an inventor of the Falcon credit card fraud detection system, which currently monitors over 80% of all credit card transactions in the U.S. Anu was the primary architect of Healthcare and Insurance systems that are deployed at Liberty Mutual Insurance, as well as at various state Medicaid and federal Medicare agencies.

Currently, Anu is a Vice President at Fair Isaac Corporation, managing a division that provides analytic solutions to the Healthcare and Insurance industries, including products focused on fraud and abuse detection in group health, claimant fraud and abuse detection in workers’ compensation, and reserving in insurance. He has authored 7 patents including 2 as lead in this space.

Prior to Fair Isaac, Anu was a the co-founder and VP of Engineering of Burning Glass which developed analytics based software products, whose functionality combined statistical natural language processing with predictive modeling, to improve efficiencies in the employment markets. Anu has 4 patents to his credit in this space.

Previously, Anu spent 9 years at HNC Software where he led modeling teams in several divisions servicing various markets, focusing on the development and launch of new predictive modeling based software products including automated real-estate appraisal, credit-risk scoring, and credit-card fraud detection. He was the lead modeler and has close to a dozen other technology and systems patents at HNC.

Anu is a PhD in Operations Research from University of California, Berkeley and MS in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley. He did his BS in Mathematics & Computer Science (double honors) from University of Waterloo. Canada.