Vishaal Venkatesh
Platform expertise

Vishaal Venkatesh

Senior Data Scientist
Team member since
2021
Platform expertise

Vishaal has a background in computer vision, natural language processing, deep learning, and reinforcement learning. He is curious about up-and-coming, niche data science techniques and is passionate about transforming them to provide business value to our clients.

Prior to joining Aimpoint, Vishaal obtained a master’s degree in data science from Duke University. During his capstone project there, he worked with a global cybersecurity client to build object-detection models that could detect phishing attempts on websites. Before Duke, Vishaal graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering.

Vishaal recently moved to Chicago and is looking forward to exploring the food and sports scene there.

Location
Chicago, IL
FOCUS AREA
Decision Sciences
Education

MS, Data Science, Duke University

BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Fun Fact
Vishaal won a lottery to attend soccer training camp by the Italian club AC Milan. He briefly met David Beckham there (for a few nanoseconds)!