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Professional Biography

Dr. Ragav Venkatesan is currently a senior software engineer at Nvidia AI and was previously employed as an applied scientist at Amazon Alexa AI and AWS Sagemaker. 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. Venkatesan was also employed by the Intel Corporation as a computer vision research intern working on technologies for autonomous vehicles. Dr. Venkatesan regularly serves as a reviewer/program committee member for several peer-reviewed journals and conferences in machine learning and computer vision. Dr. Venkatesan was also the author of the book Convolutional Neural Networks in Visual Computing, which is currently available in both English and Mandarin.