Pulse Check: Al For Application Fraud Detection [Lightning Session]

About this episode

This episode features Brendan Henkel discussing the use of AI for detecting application fraud in higher education.

For this week's Pulse Check, we revisit Brendan Henkel's lightning session at the February Engage AI Summit, focused on using AI for application fraud detection. Brendan, AVP of Solutions Engineering at Element451, gives a crash course in how AI tools can flag potential fraudulent applications and have colleges and universities avoid losing millions.

People in this episode

Host: Mallory Willsea

Guest: Brendan Henkel

Topics covered

• AI
• application fraud detection
• higher education
• technology
• solutions engineering

Keywords

• AI tools
• fraudulent applications
• colleges
• universities
• Element451

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Element451

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