Partnering with the scientific community

Capital One is deeply committed to partnering with leading research institutions to accelerate innovation and deliver broad societal benefits.

Academic Centers of Excellence

Advancing AI research through mission-driven partnerships

Academic Centers of Excellence are large-scale, multi-year collaborative commitments between Capital One and leading academic institutions. Each Center is structured to advance cross-disciplinary scholarship in responsible AI and its applications to financial systems and services.

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University of Southern California CREDIF

Capital One University of Southern California Center for Responsible AI and Decision Making in Finance

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University of Illinois - ASKS

Capital One Illinois Center for Generative AI Safety, Knowledge Systems, and Cybersecurity

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Columbia University

Columbia Center for AI and Responsible Financial Innovation

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Partnering with purpose

“We are committed to advancing partnerships between industry, academia, and government to strengthen our national capabilities in AI while ensuring a broad range of expertise and perspectives when developing, testing and deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.”

Prem Natarajan, EVP, Chief Scientist and Head of Enterprise AI

Partnerships and community

National Science FoundationSupporting NSF AI Institutes.
Partnership on AIWorking alongside industry leaders to advance AI.
UVA School of Data ScienceCreating meaningful opportunities for students and faculty.
UVA School of EngineeringBuilding infrastructure and developing fellowships.
UMD Center for Machine LearningLaunching a new Machine Learning facility.
UNC Murge LabCapital One advances Multimodal LLM research through it's partnership with MURGE Lab.
Fellowships

Capital One PhD Fellows

Capital One is proud to support PhD students in their academic and research pursuits through our valued academic partnerships.

AI & science internships

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Applied Research PhD Internship Program

Full-time, 12-week applied research experience discovering solutions to real world, large-scale problems.

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Data Science PhD Internship Program

10-week program tapping into the latest cloud and ML tech to unlock opportunities that help improve our customers’ lives.

Building the next generation of AI talent

At Capital One, you will help bring the transformative power of emerging AI capabilities to advance our mission to change banking for good and help improve the financial lives of millions of customers.

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