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Mike Dewar
Vice President Data Science
Mastercard
Dr Michael Dewar is a VP of Data Science in the Crypto and Security Innovation team within Cyber & Intelligence at Mastercard. Dr Dewar has a PhD in complex systems from the University of Sheffield, held postdoctoral positions at Edinburgh and Columbia Universities, and has published widely in the fields of mathematical modelling and machine learning.
Before joining Mastercard, Dr Dewar has held data scientist positions at the social media company bit.ly, and in the R&D Lab at the New York Times. During his time at Mastercard, Dr Dewar and his team have been responsible for creating large-scale financial crime products used by the top UK banks, including the Trace Money Mules, Consumer Fraud Risk and Corporate Fraud Risk products.