Naveen Venkatesan
Sr. Staff AI 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.
12 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 UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (24)
statistic10
javascript9
simulation9
socketcan9
diffraction9
python8
gtk8
open-source8
qt8
measurements8
matplotlib7
golang7
go7
autonomous-vehicles6
data-visualization5
Programming languages (5)
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
venkatesannaveen/xray-scattering-tools
Aug 2019 - May 2022
Scripts to analyze data from synchrotron X-ray scattering measurements
Contributions:59 commits, 58 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 10 months
pythonanalyze-datagiwaxssimulationsynchrotron
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