Recent advancements in computing technologies along with the increasing popularity of ecommerce platforms have radically amplified the risk of online fraud for financial services companies and their customers. Failing to properly recognize and prevent fraud results in billions of dollars of loss per year for the financial industry. This trend has urged companies to look into many popular artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, including deep learning for fraud detection. Deep learning can uncover patterns in tremendously large datasets and independently learn new concepts from raw data without extensive manual feature engineering. For this reason, deep learning has shown superior performance in domains such as object recognition and image classification.
Although, neural networks have been used for fraud detection for decades, recent advancements in computing technologies along with large volumes of data available today have dramatically improved the effectiveness of these techniques. Using a sample dataset that contains transactions made by credit cards in September 2013 by European cardholders, Francesca Lazzeri and Jaya Mathew explain how to build, deploy, and operationalize a deep learning model to identify and prevent fraud, using Azure Machine Learning Workbench to show the main steps in the operationalization process (from data ingestion to consumption) and the Keras deep learning library with Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit CNTK as the backend.
Francesca Lazzeri is a senior machine learning scientist at Microsoft on the cloud advocacy team and an expert in big data technology innovations and the applications of machine learning-based solutions to real-world problems. Her research has spanned the areas of machine learning, statistical modeling, time series econometrics and forecasting, and a range of industries—energy, oil and gas, retail, aerospace, healthcare, and professional services. Previously, she was a research fellow in business economics at Harvard Business School, where she performed statistical and econometric analysis within the technology and operations management unit. At Harvard, she worked on multiple patent, publication and social network data-driven projects to investigate and measure the impact of external knowledge networks on companies’ competitiveness and innovation. Francesca periodically teaches applied analytics and machine learning classes at universities and research institutions around the world. She’s a data science mentor for PhD and postdoc students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and speaker at academic and industry conferences—where she shares her knowledge and passion for AI, machine learning, and coding.
Jaya Mathew is a senior data scientist on the artificial intelligence and research team at Microsoft, where she focuses on the deployment of AI and ML solutions to solve real business problems for customers in multiple domains. Previously, she worked on analytics and machine learning at Nokia and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Jaya holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics and a graduate degree in statistics from the University of Texas at Austin.
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