Akshay Chougule (Product Analyst, Fraud) is a guest lecturer based in Seattle available for online guest lectures, in-person guest lectures, career panels, and student-organized talks at universities. Introductions are free through OpenLecture.
Guest lecture topics
Detecting Fraud in Real-Time Payments: The ACH Problem. Why faster settlement breaks traditional fraud controls. Covers the structural tension between money movement speed and verification depth, stolen-credential and account-takeover patterns specific to bank-initiated transfers, and why instant-payout products carry credit risk alongside fraud risk. Designing Fraud Detection Rules: Precision, Recall, and the Cost of Being Wrong. How detection rules actually get built and tuned in production — shadow-mode testing before deployment, threshold selection, and the asymmetry between blocking a legitimate customer and missing a fraudulent one. Experimentation Under Risk Constraints. Why A/B testing a fraud control is harder than testing a checkout button: rare events, asymmetric costs, contaminated control groups, and how to power a test when the outcome you care about occurs in a fraction of a percent of transactions.
Teaching experience
I have previously worked as TA during my graduate coursework at Northeastern and had a chance to teach statistical analysis topics
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