Dhagash Mehta

Dr. Dhagash Mehta leads the Applied Machine Learning Research team within BlackRock’s Financial Modeling Group, where he oversees efforts in applied AI, generative AI, and responsible AI for financial and wealth management applications. Dr. Mehta serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Financial Data Science and the Journal of ESG and Impact Investing.

Prior to BlackRock, Dr. Mehta worked as Senior Manager and Investment Strategist for machine learning in asset allocation at Vanguard and as a Senior Research Scientist at United Technologies (now Raytheon Tech). In academia, he held roles including Research Professor at the University of Notre Dame and postdoctoral fellowships at the Fields Institute (Toronto) and the Simons Institute (Berkeley). Dr. Mehta’s earlier research appointments span institutions such as the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, University of Adelaide, Syracuse University, and NUI Maynooth.

Dr. Mehta holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, and his research spans AI, optimization, AI for finance, AI for mathematics, and the mathematics of AI.