Bharat Venkitesh
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Cohere
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBharat Venkitesh is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Cohere with eight years of experience turning research into production AI. He is completing a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he blends advanced ML with signal processing and systems thinking. Previously at Huawei Technologies Canada, he contributed to CTC-based speech recognition and transformer-based architectures, delivering components integrated into commercial products and presenting at NeurIPS 2018 with an image captioning model. His early work spans augmented reality for tele-assistance, SLAM for autonomous navigation, and RF/communications research during internships at TCS Innovation Labs and Rockwell Collins, reflecting a hands-on knack for building end-to-end ML systems. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a blend of academic rigor and industry execution from Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad to North American AI teams. He holds an MS from Waterloo and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with CS minors from IIT Hyderabad, illustrating a strong foundation across hardware-aware ML and software engineering.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, HyderabadSanghamitra SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu
Github Skills (34)
gpt210
machine-learning-models9
cpp9
compression8
python8
deep-learning8
korean-nlp8
machine-learning8
pytorch7
gpu7
tensorflow7
high-performance7
optimization7
nlp7
neural-network6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bharatv007/Coursera
Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
bharatv007/Lung-Cancer-Detection-Kaggle
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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