Profile

Dr. Ragav Venkatesan is currently an applied scientist at Alexa AI. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Arizona State University in 2017. He had been a research associate with the Visual Representation and Processing Group at ASU, and had served as an instructor or teaching assistant for several graduate-level courses in machine learning, computer vision and signal processing. Prior to this, he was a research assistant with the Image Processing and Applications Lab at ASU, and obtained a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 2012. Previously, Venkatesan was a research scientist at Amazon Web Services and from 2013 to 2014, was with the Intel Corporation as a computer vision research intern working on technologies for autonomous vehicles. Venkatesan regularly serves as a reviewer/program committee member for several peer-reviewed journals and conferences in machine learning and computer vision. Venkatesan was also the author of the book Convolutional Neural Networks in Visual Computing, which is currently available in both English and Mandarin.