Vishaal Venkatesh
Senior Data Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVishaal Venkatesh is a Senior Data Scientist based in Chicago with six years of hands-on experience applying deep learning, computer vision, NLP, reinforcement learning and even exploratory work in quantum computing to real-world problems. He progressed from research-focused roles at Duke and University at Buffalo—where he developed CrisisBERT and comparative embedding studies—to practitioner roles building production-ready models at Aimpoint Digital, where he was promoted from Data Scientist to Senior Data Scientist. His background blends rigorous academic training (MS in Data Science from Duke, BS in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering) with applied experience detecting phishing via logo-based CV pipelines and improving decision systems for digital clients. Colleagues would describe him as someone who comfortably bridges research and production, iterating quickly on novel model architectures while keeping an eye on deployment and impact. He’s particularly adept at turning interdisciplinary datasets into robust ML solutions and has a track record of mentoring and teaching in data ethics and NLP.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Data Science, Master of Science (MS), Data Science at Duke UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Graduate, High School Graduate at GEMS Education
Arabic, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (11)
datasets8
machine-learning6
tensorflow6
masters5
duke5
deep-learning5
numpy4
spring4
science3
jax3
data-science2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
VishaalVenkatesh/datasets
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
TFDS is a collection of datasets ready to use with TensorFlow, Jax, ...
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
deep-learningdatasetmachine-learningjaxtensorflow
VishaalVenkatesh/TREC_Distributed_Machine_Learning
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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