Erfan Pirmorad is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Vanguard, where he leads efforts to design and deploy AI systems that safeguard financial services against fraud while advancing trust, transparency, and security in high-stakes, regulated environments. His work brings together advanced machine learning, explainability, and responsible AI to ensure that complex systems can be both effective and accountable. He is also at the forefront of applying agentic AI to fraud and financial crime investigations, helping shape how autonomous systems can operate with clarity, oversight, and reliability in practice.