Venkatesh Ramesh
Applied AI Scientist at Soma Energy
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolVenkatesh Ramesh is an Applied AI Scientist with nine years of experience applying deep learning to computer vision and climate science, currently based in Montreal. He has transitioned research prototypes into reusable software at Google and Mila, and now drives AI initiatives at Soma Energy, combining production engineering with scientific rigor. His work spans end-to-end ML systems—large-scale data engineering on CMIP6, physics-constrained emulators for radiative transfer, and geospatial change-detection pipelines—using TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras and C/C++. Motivated by socially impactful applications, he focuses on biodiversity conservation and climate change, bringing domain knowledge from Terra.do and Mila collaborations with Prof. David Rolnick. Notably, he has delivered high-accuracy detection systems in low-quality surveillance and terabyte-scale distributed pipelines, demonstrating a knack for turning noisy research problems into robust, deployable models.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence InstituteClimate Change: Learning for Action, Climate Change: Learning for Action at Terra.doSalwan Public SchoolBachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science at SRM IST Chennai
English, Hindi, Tamil, Japanese
Github Skills (65)
water10
parking10
deeplab10
xception10
segmentation10
visual-recognition10
face-recognition9
resnet9
object-detection9
computer-vision9
image-processing9
python9
imagery9
deep-learning9
efficientnet9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Venka97/FaceSwapCV
Apr 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 13 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Venka97/Document-Scanner
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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