Bhuvan Venkatesh
Senior Data Scientist, Fraud And Spam
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBhuvan Venkatesh is a senior data scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in fraud and spam detection, currently leading efforts at Spotify to use ML to detect adversarial attacks against podcasts and expanding coverage to audiobooks and new content verticals. He has a strong track record at scale—from building a trash-news detector at Facebook that impacted millions of views daily to identifying high-severity, low-frequency content integrity risks at Meta. Comfortable both mentoring and shipping production systems, he has taught data science concepts professionally and helped develop course materials at UIUC. Based in Chicago, he blends academic rigor (MS/BS in Computer Science from UIUC) with pragmatic, cost-saving ML solutions that have directly reduced platform losses. Notably, his approach emphasizes spotting adversarial patterns rather than just anomalies, enabling proactive defenses across emerging audio formats.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science Computer Science, Master of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
French
Stackoverflow
304reputation
29kreached
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Github Skills (34)
textbook10
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system-programming10
linux10
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posix10
jekyll10
gnu10
grades8
shared-ptr6
sql-server6
cycle6
scikit-learn6
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bhuvan-venkatesh/Breakout
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
gameclassic-gamebreakout-gamebreakoutjava
bhuvy2/bhuvy2.github.io
Feb 2017 - Dec 2021
My Personal Site
Contributions:2 PRs, 117 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 10 months
reactnextjs
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