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Name Varun Venkatesh
Email varun.venkatesh@campus.lmu.de

Work

  • May 2026 - Present
    Studentische Hilfskraft
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

    Chair of Statistical Learning and Data Science with Dr. Giuseppe Casalicchio

  • Dec 2024 - Present
    Working Student Data Science and Engineering for Generative AI
    Data Analytics and AI Lab Team, Inverso GmbH

    AI solutions for insurance claims automation, LegalNLP evaluation, and liability representation.

    • Evaluated LegalNLP limitations and benchmarked LLMs to improve claims adjustment workflows.
    • Engineered a privacy-safe dataset and validation framework for insurance-domain LLM evaluation.
    • Architected a proprietary claims ontology to automate liability representation.
    • Co-advised a Master's thesis on causal representation, aligning research with strategic AI goals.
  • Jun 2023 - Feb 2024
    Research Intern
    Machine Learning Theory Lab, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

    Use traditional signal processing methods to design explainable and interpretable audio denoising neural networks.

Education

  • Oct 2024 - Present

    Munich, Germany

    Master of Science (M.Sc)
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

    Statistics and Data Science

    Machine Learning Track Grade: 1,52
    Completed courses
    • Optimization
    • Supervised Learning
    • Interpretable ML
    • Deep Learning
    • Preference Learning & Ranking
    • Entropy & Information Theory
    Seminars
    • Uncertainty Estimation for Deep Learning
    • Explaining Black-Box Predictions: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Reliable Model Interpretability
  • Jan 2021 - May 2024

    Chennai, India

    Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
    Indian Institute of Technology Madras

    Data Science and Applications

    Grade: 9.10 CGPA
    Honors
    • Certificate of Merit for Academic Excellence and Bronze Medal
    Completed courses
    • Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Large Language Models, Advanced Algorithms, Statistical Computing

Languages

English
Proficient (C1)
German
Independent (B1/B2)
Dutch
Basic (A2)

References

Dr. Mina Rezaei
Group Leader (Probabilistic Machine and Deep Learning & Methods Beyond Supervised Learning)
Dr. Johann Hagerer
Supervisor @ TU Munich; AI Architect @ Inverso (i-DNA Lab Team)
Dr. Matthias Aßenmacher
Group Leader (Natural Language Processing)
Dr. Chandrashekar Lakshminarayanan
Professor & Principal Investigator @ Machine Learning Theory (MALT) Lab, IIT Madras