Svetha Venkatesh is one of the top 15 women in the world in

Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...

. She is Indian/Australian and is an Alfred Deakin Professor in the Faculty of Science, Engineering & Built Environments, in the Department of Pattern Recognition and Data Analytics at Deakin University, as well as a professor of computer science and director of the Centre for Pattern Recognition and Data Analytics (PRaDA) at Deakin. She was elected a Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition in 2004 for her contributions to the "formulation and extraction of semantics in multimedia data". She was also elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2006 and an

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Laureate Fellow in June 2017. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in May 2021. Venkatesh has developed new technologies in large-scale pattern recognition in

big data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

. Her work has led to start-ups such as iCetana which finds anomalies through video analytics to detect potential security threats in large data sets; the development of a health analytics program which enables doctors to predict suicide risk; and PRaDA's development of the Toby Playpad app which provides therapy for children with

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. Her work on using surveillance data led to the development of a "virtual observer" which was used after the

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. Based on gender diversity analysis of 1.5m research papers, Venkatesh is one of the top 15 women in the world contributing to artificial intelligence research. She is based in

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, Victoria. Venkatesh delivered the 2015 Harrison Lecture for Innovation. In addition to her research, in 2015 she founde
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- Deakin University's flagship entrepreneurship program. Venkatesh's son, Akshay, a mathematician specialising in number theory and related topics, was one of the four

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winners in 2018.Fields Medal: Aussie genius Akshay Venkatesh wins 'Nobel Prize of mathematics'
Michael Slezak, ABC News Online, 2018-08-02

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