Divya Venkatraman

BE, MSc & PhD (NTU, Singapore)

Singapore

Divya is a hands-on technologist with a passion for solving real-world problems with an interdisciplinary approach. Currently she switches time between providing data science/AI consulting services to organizations in APAC (mainly startups) and teaching/mentoring adult learners making a shift into the tech industry.

Divya started her career as a Software Engineer developing web-based applications for the US insurance industry while at Infosys, India. She received her masters and doctorate in Digital Signal processing (yester-year data science focussed on feature engineering) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Including her graduate degree, Divya has been an ardent data science/AI practitioner for close to 15 years making the journey from a software engineer to a signal processing engineer to a researcher to an applied machine learning/ AI engineer working on multiple projects across different industry verticals such as Energy (Halliburton), eduTech (CRADLE@NTU), Risk Management (Sense Infosys), MedTech (AiHighway) and HRTech (InterviewerAI.) She specializes in processing sequence data that includes time-series signals like vibration, audio etc and natural language (both text & speech.)

Armed with industry experience, she started teaching the 3-month full time data science immersive bootcamp at General assembly, Singapore. Over the last few years she has tailored many custom curricula and taught various interdisciplinary courses spanning areas of data science, AI, software engineering, cloud architecting and AI for both consumer and enterprise clients. She also sits in the General Assembly Global Data Science Immersive product advisory group.

Currently she is an Adjunct Faculty at the SP Jain School of Global Management, Singapore and teaches the Applied Statistics for Decision Making (ASDM) for the GMBA and MGB cohorts. Her areas of interest include product analytics, natural language processing, and Explainable AI.