Dr Venkatapathy Subramanian

Date of birth: 24/09/1986 Nationality: Indian Gender Male (+91) 8667880732

venkat.s.iyer@gmail.com https://sites.google.com/view/venkatapathy/home

https://github.com/venkatapathy

https://www.linkedin.com/in/venkatapathy-subramanian-22049b88/

6D1, New No: 2, Ashok Nagar, Maniyakaranpalayam Road, Ganapathy(PO), 641006,

Coimbatore, India
About me: I have a PhD in Computer Science from Gran Sasso Science Institute- Italy,
with a specialization in BPMN and e-Learning. Currently, I am working as a technical
consultant with IITB- Cell for Science and Technology in Sanskrit focusing on AI and
Deep Learning for OCR. I am ex-CTO and co-founder of EduSeva Technologies, an
edTech startup for learning technologies. I volunteer with Anaadi Foundation, working
for Youth Skilling Initiatives. I design and teach Coding workshops and boot camps for
students. I call myself a geek of CS with an interest in science communication and an all-
round intellect. I priorly worked with Amrita E-Learning Research Labs and Cognizant. I
love interacting with the youth and am passionate about enhancing rural youth's tech
skills and employability.

WORK EXPERIENCE

01/01/2021 – CURRENT – Mumbai, India

TECHNICAL CONSULTANT- ARITIFICAL INTELLIGENCE – CELL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN SANSKRIT, IIT-B

I am currently working on coming up with an AI-based Optical Character Recognition(OCR) for detecting characters
from Old Sanskrit documents and manuscripts. Work is focused on building and training an LSTM neural network
model on top of an open-source OCR project- Tesseract. I also mentor a team of interns working on the project
focusing on Deep Learning models and Post-editing tools. I am also working on building an archive for OCRd
documents on top of the Solr Search engine
Main Responsibilities:
◦ Coming up with a neural network model to improvise OCR for older Sanskrit fonts.
◦ Lead and mentor students in the team working with Tesseract-OCR and Post-editing tools
◦ Build a web-based OCR document viewer for viewing and editing documents
◦ Build an archive and a search engine based on Solr and Lucene search-engine

01/03/2018 – CURRENT
REGIONAL MENTOR OF CHANGE- ATAL INNOVATION MISSION – NITI AAYOG

I am one of the 37 candidates selected as “Regional Mentors of Change(RMoC)” for Tamil Nadu state, after competitive
rounds of selection, reviews and track record. As RMoC my responsibilities include becoming certified Mentor Trainers
and train other Mentors of Change all over TN and India, become ambassadors for the programs challenges,
innovation events and mentoring themes.
Mentor of Change Program is a strategic nation-building initiative to engage leaders who can guide and mentor
students in thousands of Atal Tinkering Labs that Atal Innovation Mission scheme has established. Had volunteered to
be the mentor for Ramakrishna Vidhyalaya, Tirupur, Tamil Nadu. The role of the mentor involves designing the
curriculum for the institution's Atal Tinker Lab and provide active guidance for the execution of the programs.
Have conducted free certification workshops on Google CS First, IoT for the hundreds of students from the institution.
Delhi, India

24/07/2019 – 31/12/2020 – Coimbatore

PROGRAM DIRECTOR- ANAADI RURAL YOUTH INITIATIVES – ANAADI FOUNDATION

Anaadi Foundation is a social non-profit-organization dedicated to inspiring individual to lead a self-reliant, sustainable
and fulfilled life. I work as the Program Director of Anaadi Youth Initiatives.
I manage the digital profile of the organization including web hosting, full-stack website development, deployment &
maintenance, Moodle & Wordpress administration. I also have developed hybrid apps (Chant Along) based on Angular
2, Java, Ionic platforms.
The profile also involves setting of objectives for Youth Digital Skilling by offering them toolsets, and pathways for a
professional career and primarily bridge the education-employment skill-gap through demand-driven industry-specific
skilling programs. Part of the profile also includes in designing innovative educational interventions in molding youth
into problem-solvers. This involves reaching out to different educational and industrial institutions, signing MOUs’ to
facilitate student intake and professional training.
Coimbatore, India
24/06/2015 – 24/07/2019
CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER – EDUSEVA TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED

EduSeva is an educational software technology company offering a unified Learning Management Suite (LMS) with rich
productivity tools and modules that serve all the stakeholders of education - Teachers, Students, Parents,
Administrators and Management. Some products developed for our different premium clients include School Parent
Relations App, Administrative ERP, Academic Learning Management System, Parents Portal, Curiosity Labs, Online
Applications & MIS Analytics Dashboard.
Co-Founder Role and Responsibility:
As a co-founder of the organisation I was involved in developing the niche area required for organisational growth,
envisioning the product, as well as building teams and resource development. Some key responsibilities include:
◦ Identifying market opportunities for our LMS suite.
◦ Hands-on experience in product development from scratch including design, specification, packaging and
deployment.
◦ Identify key resource persons, build and lead teams.
CTO Role and Responsibility:
As the CTO of the company, I was involved in developing our LMS, ERM & CRM tools based on open-source software
such as Moodle, Odoo, etc., I was also involved hands-on in Mobile app development building hybrid apps based on
Angular2, Ionic and Java. I and my team were also involved in workflow management of the ERP systems and building
Learning analytics for our client institutions.
As outreach activities, I conducted various certification workshops on topics such as Digital Literacy, VR for Kids,
Analytical thinking, Google CS First, Code.org's Hour of Code, Career Guidance program etc., directly impacting
thousands of school children have been conducted. For college graduates workshops on topics such as Algorithmic
thinking, Full-stack web development, Virtual-Reality, Programming Languages have also been conducted.
Coimbatore, India

01/11/2016 – 30/04/2017
SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATOR – CENTER FOR NATIONAL RESEARCH, ITALY, PISA(ITALY)

Learn PAd: Along with Antonia Bertolino, I worked in the European Union Project Learn PAd as a scientific collaborator
with the "Alessandro Faedo" Institute of Information Science and Technology, Pisa (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie
dell'Informazione, in Italian) which is one of the premier institutes of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). Learn
PAd is an innovative holistic e-learning platform for Public Administration that enables process-driven learning and
fosters cooperation and knowledge-sharing.

For the team, I developed a Research tool called Business Process Management based e-Learning System(BPMLS)
which can be used to create and deploy various business process for the purpose of educating the users. For the
project I worked with Camunda Engine wrapping it with e-Learning and Learning analytics capabilities along with
RESTful APIs. The tool was developed with Java Spring Boot framework for the core engine and Angular 1 for the
fullstack website development. It also connected with the Experience API(https://xapi.com/) for learning analytics data
collecting and analysis. The tool is part of my thesis and can be found in the following link: https://github.com/
venkatapathy/bpmls-framework

01/04/2011 – 01/01/2013
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE – AMRITA E-LEARNING RESEARCH LAB

A-VIEW research project: The project majorly dealt with making videos that are subtitled, search friendly. Role
involved feature identification from the video, topic-based video segmentation, Ranking video based on relevance,
Indexing and searching. Extensive exposure to Lucene indexing platform, various data structures such as B-Tree, R-
Segment Tree etc., BM25F formula for ranking was customised as per need and for video meta-data segmentation
TexTiling algorithm was modified
Coimbatore, India

01/06/2010 – 01/03/2011
PROGRAM ANALYST – COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, INDIA

Worked in Mainframe, DB2 and JCL technologies in the insurance domain. The role was to service any incoming defect
and new customisation request as per client need. Key responsibilities included: 1. Solving functional defects, bugs and
change requests within a hard delivery period of 24 hours. 2. Enhancing the software as per the dynamic need and
request of the client.
Coimbatore, India
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
11/11/2013 – 04/02/2018 – L'Aquila, Italy
PHD IN COMPUTER SCIENCE – Gran Sasso Science Institute

Thesis on ‘Modelling, Design and Evaluation of a Process-Driven Framework for Workplace e-Learning’. Based on
the concept of “learning by doing", it is about exploiting Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) in designing
e-learning systems for workplace learning. The research work provided the theoretical definition of Learning Path and
the architecture specifications for a Business Process Management Learning Systems (BPMLS). We also
implemented a prototype of BPMLS based on its architectural specification and evaluated it on a pilot study. Followed
by the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to have an evidence-based understanding of how users receive BPMLS as a
new technology for learning. The thesis is part of European Union FP7 project LearnPAd that supports process-driven
collaborative knowledge sharing on a user-friendly basis of wiki pages together with guidance based on formalized
models.

01/06/2007 – 01/05/2010 – Coimbatore, India

MASTER IN COMPUTER APPLICATION – Amrita Vishwa Vidhyapeetham, Amrita University

01/06/2004 – 01/04/2007 – Coimbatore, India

BACHELOR IN COMPUTER APPLICATION – Dr. G.R.Damodaran College of Science, Coimbatore, India. Bharathiar
University

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Mother tongue(s): TAMIL

Other language(s):

UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING

Listening Reading Spoken production Spoken interaction

ENGLISH C2 C2 C2 C2 C2

ITALIAN A2 A2 A1 A1 A1

Levels: A1 and A2: Basic user; B1 and B2: Independent user; C1 and C2: Proficient user

PUBLICATIONS
Publications

◦ Subramanian, Venkatapathy, and Antonia Bertolino. "A Model Driven Approach to Business Process-Based
Learning." International Conference on Computer Supported Education. Springer, Cham, 2016.

◦ Rekha, V. Smrithi, and S. Venkatapathy. "Understanding the usage of online forums as learning platforms." Proc
edia Computer Science 46 (2015): 499-506.

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

Conferences

◦ Subramanian, Venkatapathy, and Antonia Bertolino. "Learning path specification for workplace learning based
on business process management." Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported
Education. SCITEPRESS-Science and Technology Publications, Lda, 2016.

◦ Subramanian, Venkatapathy. "Towards Business Process Management Based Workplace e-Learning." Advanced
Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on. IEEE, 2016.

◦ Subramanian, Venkatapathy, and Antonia Bertolino. "Monitoring of Learning Path for Business Process
Models." AMARETTO@ MODELSWARD. 2016.
HONOURS AND AWARDS
Honours and awards

◦ National-level finalist of FameLab 2016, an international science communication competition.

◦ Awarded the Mr Idea title at the 5th Anniversary Celebrations of Cognizant Technology Solutions, Coimbatore.

ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS
Organisational skills

◦ Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with appropriate critical thinking that helps see the big picture,
identify research areas and design solutions precisely
◦ Exposure to diverse work situations such as product development, servicing change requests, presenting ideas,
conducting experiments and demonstrating research findings helped gain appropriate time management skills.
◦ Consistent performer, both effective and efficiently meeting deadlines and on-time delivery despite the time
crunch
◦ Possess great communication skills that helps seamless planning and execution of cross-team solutions
integration
◦ Pro-actively launched series of FOSS workshops at Amrita University

JOB-RELATED SKILLS
Job-related skills

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Python, Prolog,

Web Technologies: PHP, JSP, CGI, XML, Reactive JS, Angular JS., JQuery
Workflow Technologies: Camunda, draw.io/bpmn.io, Odoo ERP, DroolsComplex Event Processing engine (CEP)
Databases: Postgres, Oracle, DB, MySQL
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows
Other Tools/Technologies: MS Office, Adobe Premier, Dreamweaver, Netbeans, Eclipse, IDLE
Framework: TensorFlow, Keras, Apache Lucene, Apache Storm,

Excellent programming skills and sound software development background. Quick learner of new programming
languages and technologies, on the fly.

CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS
Certification Programs

Regularly conduct certified coding bootcamps called Code Intensive and Hackathons across institutions in which
participants gain solid programming skills that will help realise their career aspiration to be an outstanding developer
and product creator.

Also conduct certification program on Google Algorithmic Thinking, Standford CS50 etc.,