Naveen Venkatesan
Staff Machine Learning Software Engineer at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
California, United States
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Top SchoolNaveen Venkatesan is a Sr. Staff AI Software Engineer with 11 years of experience applying machine learning to vehicle systems and enterprise applications at Rivian (and collaborative work with Volkswagen Group Technologies). He brings a rare blend of deep materials-science research—holding a Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara and co-authoring multiple peer-reviewed papers—and production ML engineering, having built ETL pipelines, deployed damage-detection models, and developed agentic conversational AI. Comfortable moving between research and product, he has published analysis tooling (including a Python/PyQt X-ray scattering toolkit) and led experiments at national user facilities. Based in California, Naveen is passionate about sustainability and alternative energy, translating domain knowledge in materials and electrochemistry into data-driven solutions for real-world vehicle reliability and performance.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Materials Science and Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara
Github Skills (35)
chord-diagram10
socketcan10
jupyter9
measurements9
controller9
javascript9
seaborn9
simulation9
statistic9
open-source9
altair9
diffraction9
plotly9
medium9
jupyter-notebook9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
venkatesannaveen/nfl-infographics
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
Notebooks to create NFL statistic infographics
Contributions:78 commits, 17 PRs, 65 pushes in 2 months
infographicsdata-sciencestatisticnotebooksnfl
naveenv92/python-science-tutorial
Apr 2020 - May 2022
Series of notebooks to illustrate different plotting features using Python
Contributions:36 commits, 5 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 1 month
altairseabornpythonchord-diagramdata-science
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