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Venkata Subrahmanian NV

Deputy Program Manager at DataLEADS

Kozhikode

4+ years of work experience

DataLEADS
Jul 20232 yrs 10 mosPresent

Delhi, India

I work across verticals in various capacities. - Leading a team of two programmers in shipping AI solutions for social impact. - Master Trainer, Inaugural Cohort, AI for Digital Readiness and Advancement (ADiRA): Google, AVPN-funded initiative with an objective to train healthcare practitioners and media professionals across India with practical AI skills. Trained over 300 participants in T2/T3 underserved communities in adopting AI in their day-to-day workflows. - Key coordinator for Shakti: India Election Fact-Checking Collective, a pan-India collaboration of publishers and fact-checkers ahead of 2024 Indian elections. - Planning, monitoring, data analysis, evaluation (and occasional delivery) of Google News Initiative-India Training Network project. - Partnerships & Business Development: Conducted stakeholder requirement gathering and analysis across multiple government and private sector verticals, facilitating seamless program integration and delivery. - Coordinated cross-functional tech integration spanning process optimization, content, and operations, ensuring alignment with program objectives and timelines. Also thinking about AI and its implications for everything including more competitive markets and shared prosperity.
School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
May 20223 mosJul 2022

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Project: Transforming M-Ward Everyday urbanisms in Mumbai's peripheries: prepared a social history of forms of resistance and struggles for rights & justice in informal settlements of M-ward under Dr Amita Bhide. Methods: oral history interviews, archives.
CSES India
Dec 20212 mosJan 2022

Project: Women's representation and gendering of beat assignment in Malayalam TV news
Foundation for Community Consensus
Oct 20212 mosNov 2021

Hands-on experience in participatory budgeting and Janacek method of voting
Career Break
Jun 20181 yrMay 2019

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Prepared for the Union Public Civil Services examinations. Gained exposure to public policy, development, economy, sociology, and geography of India. Gained skills such as writing, time management, dealing with adversity and uncertainty, and decision-making under pressure. Motivated to pursue a master's in public policy with a focus on development and urban policy.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Master's degree, Public Policy

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

20212 yrs2023
Government Engineering College, Thrissur

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

Government Engineering College, Thrissur

20144 yrs2018

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Headline

Deputy Program Manager at DataLEADS

About

Research interests: urban policy, marginality, misinformation, and politics of technology & AI. Lapsed engineer with an interest in sociology and data.

Location

Kozhikode

Work experience

Deputy Program Manager at DataLEADS, Jul 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos, Delhi, India, I work across verticals in various capacities. - Leading a team of two programmers in shipping AI solutions for social impact. - Master Trainer, Inaugural Cohort, AI for Digital Readiness and Advancement (ADiRA): Google, AVPN-funded initiative with an objective to train healthcare practitioners and media professionals across India with practical AI skills. Trained over 300 participants in T2/T3 underserved communities in adopting AI in their day-to-day workflows. - Key coordinator for Shakti: India Election Fact-Checking Collective, a pan-India collaboration of publishers and fact-checkers ahead of 2024 Indian elections. - Planning, monitoring, data analysis, evaluation (and occasional delivery) of Google News Initiative-India Training Network project. - Partnerships & Business Development: Conducted stakeholder requirement gathering and analysis across multiple government and private sector verticals, facilitating seamless program integration and delivery. - Coordinated cross-functional tech integration spanning process optimization, content, and operations, ensuring alignment with program objectives and timelines. Also thinking about AI and its implications for everything including more competitive markets and shared prosperity.

Research Intern at School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, May 2022 - Jul 2022 · 3 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Project: Transforming M-Ward Everyday urbanisms in Mumbai's peripheries: prepared a social history of forms of resistance and struggles for rights & justice in informal settlements of M-ward under Dr Amita Bhide. Methods: oral history interviews, archives.

Research Intern at CSES India, Dec 2021 - Jan 2022 · 2 mos, Project: Women's representation and gendering of beat assignment in Malayalam TV news

Policy Fellow at Foundation for Community Consensus, Oct 2021 - Nov 2021 · 2 mos, Hands-on experience in participatory budgeting and Janacek method of voting

Personal goal pursuit at Career Break, Jun 2018 - May 2019 · 1 yr, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, Prepared for the Union Public Civil Services examinations. Gained exposure to public policy, development, economy, sociology, and geography of India. Gained skills such as writing, time management, dealing with adversity and uncertainty, and decision-making under pressure. Motivated to pursue a master's in public policy with a focus on development and urban policy.

Education

Master's degree, Public Policy, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Government Engineering College, Thrissur