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Senior Data Scientist at Asurion
Fraud & Compliance Data Science
Georgia Tech MS ECE · Nashville, TN
About
Senior Data Scientist on the Fraud & Compliance Data Science team at Asurion in Nashville, TN and Georgia Tech graduate — a passionate AI practitioner with experience spanning Asurion, Analog Devices, ULB Brussels, and IIT Madras. Creator of TalentGrep and ArguLens.
Experience
Leading the compliance data science function to deliver ML/LLM solutions. Built a real-time sales bot using Claude 3.7 Sonnet on AWS Bedrock Flows, enabling 150K+ monthly live calls. Developed 15 supervised & generative AI models, boosting call review efficiency by 45% and saving $1.6M annually.
CatBoost sales propensity routing (+12% sales, $15M value). Causal modeling for churn reduction (160 bps, ~$1M). Mentored 21 Georgia Tech MS Analytics students on OCR appliance tag identification.
Boosted 30-day retention in AT&T Photos (+30 bps) & Verizon Photos (+150 bps) via face detection (DSFD), recognition (InsightFace), and unsupervised clustering.
TA for CS 7641 Machine Learning (Prof. Charles Isbell) and CS 4476/6476 Computer Vision (Prof. Judy Hoffman & Prof. Devi Parikh).
SystemC-UVM model verification for 4G LTE transceivers. Built a virtual support platform for the API and firmware team, improving product cycle by 6 months.
Developed a 1-D CNN classifier for sleep state classification from single-channel EEG signals (18% improvement). Designed an EEG extracting ergonomic headset.
Evolutionary neural network controller (NEAT) for swarm aggregation. 31% improvement over MLP controller in ARGoS simulator.
Research at the Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre under Prof. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam on biomedical signal processing and medical device development.
Education
Master of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Digital Signal Processing & Computer Vision · Aug 2019 – May 2021
Graduate Teaching Assistant for Computer Vision and Machine Learning
B.Tech (Honors) in Electronics & Communication Engineering
Electronics and Communication · Aug 2014 – May 2018
CGPA 9.10/10
Expertise
Beyond Work
Gym, yoga, and hiking enthusiast
7 European countries, 25 U.S. states
AR Rahman admirer, eclectic tastes
Huberman Lab enthusiast
I love thinking outside the box and thrive on competition. My diverse interests have led me to excel at activities like dancing, skating, and skiing. In my social circles, I'm often relied upon for financial advice and trip planning. I admire AR Rahman, Novak Djokovic, and Lewis Hamilton.
Testimonials
I had the pleasure of joining Venkat’s team as their Product Manager, and from day one, I was very impressed by his depth of knowledge, clarity of thinking, and collaborative approach. Venkat played a key role in our GenAI sales initiatives, bringing both strong data science expertise and exceptional communication skills to complex, high-visibility work. What stood out most to me was how thoughtfully he brought me up to speed on a complicated project landscape – providing clear context, thorough documentation, and structured walkthroughs that made it easy to ramp quickly.
Bailey Venner
AI Product Manager @ Asurion
I worked with Venkat for about 2 years. He led the development of Asurion's Compliance system rework that underpins the backbone of the serve-solve-sell engine. The system worked really well at scale and continues to do so. He manages the trade offs between quality and speed very well, and maintains great relationships with stakeholders.
Madhu Babu Adiki
Principal AI Engineer | Generative AI, Optimization; Ex-Asurion
I’ve worked with Venkata for over a year in the sales compliance space. Venkata has developed a multitude of machine learning models, using different styles of models to include GenAI. Venkata delivers consistent, and accurate results. Venkata has repeatedly demonstrated the skills to lead large scale projects with multiple departmental stakeholders. I know I can rely on Venkata to work collaboratively, and effectively on prioritizing work and following through on commitments. I would absolutely work alongside Venkata in any project.
Chad Wills
Business Analyst | SQL Programmer | Power Platform Development
Venkata is great teammate and helpful individual. He is fun to work with, when it comes to team work and collaboration he is good choice to go with. His strong skills in AI, ML and generative AI is good plus for any team. He is curious individual and I really appreciate his eagerness to learn something new. For a fast paced, adaptive work setting he has shown good standing. I would strongly recommend him for any challenging Data Science adventure, and I wish him best for his future endeavors!
Nisarg Dave
Data Science | ML & AI Strategy | Generative AI
I am particularly satisfied with the interaction I had with him and with the results he was able to produce. He quickly integrated into my group and became productive within a few days. He is definitely a brilliant student with an excellent background and strong skills. He is also extremely curious and is always willing to learn and acquire new skills. The results he produced during his internship at IRIDIA are interesting and worth being published.
Prof. Mauro Birattari, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles
I found Venkat to be a self motivated person providing his insights in our project discussions. His proficiency in MATLAB was a key factor in winding up the project on time. I found him highly energetic in exploring and learning new things and also very responsible and punctual. I believe that Venkat has the potential to pursue a career in research and I therefore strongly recommend him.
Dr. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam
Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras
I have found Venkat to be an independent thinker, and being very enthusiastic about learning something new. More importantly, I observed that he take initiatives and responsibility when executing projects. He is quick in learning new software and grasping concepts. This quality makes him a very reliable candidate or student. I strongly recommend him.
Dr. E.S. Gopi
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering, NIT Trichy
I had the pleasure of joining Venkat’s team as their Product Manager, and from day one, I was very impressed by his depth of knowledge, clarity of thinking, and collaborative approach. Venkat played a key role in our GenAI sales initiatives, bringing both strong data science expertise and exceptional communication skills to complex, high-visibility work. What stood out most to me was how thoughtfully he brought me up to speed on a complicated project landscape – providing clear context, thorough documentation, and structured walkthroughs that made it easy to ramp quickly.
Bailey Venner
AI Product Manager @ Asurion
I worked with Venkat for about 2 years. He led the development of Asurion's Compliance system rework that underpins the backbone of the serve-solve-sell engine. The system worked really well at scale and continues to do so. He manages the trade offs between quality and speed very well, and maintains great relationships with stakeholders.
Madhu Babu Adiki
Principal AI Engineer | Generative AI, Optimization; Ex-Asurion
I’ve worked with Venkata for over a year in the sales compliance space. Venkata has developed a multitude of machine learning models, using different styles of models to include GenAI. Venkata delivers consistent, and accurate results. Venkata has repeatedly demonstrated the skills to lead large scale projects with multiple departmental stakeholders. I know I can rely on Venkata to work collaboratively, and effectively on prioritizing work and following through on commitments. I would absolutely work alongside Venkata in any project.
Chad Wills
Business Analyst | SQL Programmer | Power Platform Development
Venkata is great teammate and helpful individual. He is fun to work with, when it comes to team work and collaboration he is good choice to go with. His strong skills in AI, ML and generative AI is good plus for any team. He is curious individual and I really appreciate his eagerness to learn something new. For a fast paced, adaptive work setting he has shown good standing. I would strongly recommend him for any challenging Data Science adventure, and I wish him best for his future endeavors!
Nisarg Dave
Data Science | ML & AI Strategy | Generative AI
I am particularly satisfied with the interaction I had with him and with the results he was able to produce. He quickly integrated into my group and became productive within a few days. He is definitely a brilliant student with an excellent background and strong skills. He is also extremely curious and is always willing to learn and acquire new skills. The results he produced during his internship at IRIDIA are interesting and worth being published.
Prof. Mauro Birattari, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles
I found Venkat to be a self motivated person providing his insights in our project discussions. His proficiency in MATLAB was a key factor in winding up the project on time. I found him highly energetic in exploring and learning new things and also very responsible and punctual. I believe that Venkat has the potential to pursue a career in research and I therefore strongly recommend him.
Dr. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam
Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras
I have found Venkat to be an independent thinker, and being very enthusiastic about learning something new. More importantly, I observed that he take initiatives and responsibility when executing projects. He is quick in learning new software and grasping concepts. This quality makes him a very reliable candidate or student. I strongly recommend him.
Dr. E.S. Gopi
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering, NIT Trichy
Products
AI-powered tools solving real problems for real users — all designed, built, and deployed solo.
“Your AI legal analyst — available around the clock”
Full-stack SaaS for Singapore family law. Upload documents, get AI-powered case analysis with cited evidence, generate court-ready documents, and auto-fill FJC Form 2A.
“Point your phone at the TV. Ask anything.”
AI companion for watching TV — capture your screen, identify any show in under 2 seconds, and ask contextual questions. PWA, no account needed.
“Find engineers by what they've actually built”
AI-powered developer hiring tool that analyzes GitHub profiles to surface structured skill profiles. Search by skill, stack, or role.
Projects
A selection of projects showcasing expertise in AI, ML, and data science
Real-time sales bot on Claude 3.7 Sonnet via AWS Bedrock Flows. 150K+ monthly live calls, personalized product offers, +100 bps sales lift.
26 ML/LLM models for sales compliance across Verizon, AT&T & Cricket. +45% review efficiency, $1.6M annual savings. Agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, ~65K calls/month serverless architecture.
Causal modeling for email campaign optimization. User segmentation and cohort analysis drove 160 bps churn reduction (~$1M impact).
CatBoost propensity model routing high-value customers to top sales experts. +12% sales lift, 6% churn reduction ($15M annual value).
Videos
From research to engineering — project walkthroughs and live demos
Blog
Point your phone at the TV and ask anything. How I built an AI companion that identifies shows from camera captures and answers contextual questions — using Gemini vision, TMDB, and voice input.
The story behind ArguLens — from a friend's divorce paperwork to an AI product that finds contradictions, reconstructs timelines, and grounds every claim in source documents.
TalentGrep analyzes GitHub profiles to surface real skill profiles — moving past resume keywords to what engineers have actually shipped.
Activity
A glimpse into my fitness journey and music taste — because data scientists track everything!
No Rest Days!
Challenge me! Connect on Apple Fitness
Eclectic taste across genres
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