David Saffo
VP Applied AI ML Lead at JPMorganChase
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Saffo is a VP-level applied AI/ML leader specializing in immersive technology, spatial computing, and immersive analytics, currently driving research and product-ready innovations at JPMorgan Chase Global Technology Applied Research. With a PhD in Computer Science from Northeastern and a decade of experience bridging HCI, data visualization, AR/VR, and ML, he translates academic insight into practical systems that inform enterprise decision-making. His background includes hands-on EEG-based velocity prediction and VR experiment design, reflecting a long-standing interest in real-time human-data interaction beyond typical backend ML work. Based in Boston, he blends leadership of cross-disciplinary research teams with prototyping expertise, ensuring emerging spatial computing concepts move toward production impact. Notably, he shifted from doctoral research to leading applied research at a major financial institution, bringing rigorous experimental methods to industrial-scale problems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Detroit Jesuit High School and AcademyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering at Loyola University ChicagoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Northeastern University
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Github Skills (26)
javascript9
ros9
drones8
wsl28
log-analysis8
autopilot7
mavlink7
rover7
python7
raspberry-pi6
vega-lite6
dask6
windows6
dynamics6
community-detection6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dsaffo/DataComets
Jul 2019 - Jul 2021
Interactive PX4 Flight Log Analysis Tool
Contributions:1 release, 113 commits, 39 pushes in 2 years 1 month
flightflight-log-analysispythonlog-analysisflight-log
dsaffo/GeoSocialVis
May 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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