Dr. Venkat Chilukuri
Venkat Chilukuri is a data scientist who came to it from civil and transportation engineering. He has a Bachelor's in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Andhra University in India, and a Master's and PhD in Civil (Transportation) Engineering from the University of Missouri in the US. His career has moved across fields: Traffic Engineer (EIT) at HDR Engineering in the US, then a post-doctoral fellow at CiSTUP at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, then a data scientist at Voonik Technologies in Bangalore. He works on data literacy, on how to reason about uncertainty in systems, and on using data to improve everyday life. After his time at Srishti he started his own data science practice in early 2022, which is where he still works. His grasp of data literacy and his range in applying data science make him a respected mentor in the field.