Naveen Venkat
Sr. Research Scientist at Runway
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolNaveen Venkat is a Senior Research Scientist with a decade of experience applying computer vision and machine learning to real-world products, currently helping reinvent video editing at Runway. He holds an MS in Computer Vision from Carnegie Mellon and a strong research background from IISc, where he helped introduce source-free domain adaptation and published work on robust, compute-efficient training methods. Naveen pairs production-facing ML engineering—deploying end-to-end systems and visualization tools at Cruise and Couture.ai—with rigor in algorithm design, spanning LiDAR detection to audio-visual summarization. He has led and mentored student teams, developed privacy-preserving adaptation techniques, and built debugging/metric tooling that improved model interpretability. Based in Jersey City, he blends academic depth with startup speed and a knack for turning novel research into deployable features that create business impact.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceHigh School, with specialization in Computer Science, High School, with specialization in Computer Science at Mount Carmel SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computer Vision, 4.11/4, Master of Science - MS, Computer Vision, 4.11/4 at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi, Tamil
Github Skills (35)
tensorboard10
bluno8
visualization8
chainer8
pytorch7
letter7
machine-learning7
computer-graphics7
computer-vision7
deep-learning6
wordpress6
protein-sequences6
tensorflow5
autoencoder5
structural-biology5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nmakes/aibot
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:36 commits, 7 pushes in 3 months
nmakes/tiny
Jun 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:37 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 2 years 3 months
cppc-libraryvisittinywordpress
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