# Shruthi Venkata > MS Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices @ Columbia Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shruthivenkata ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ PolyAI Jan 2022 – Present Code in Python to leverage AI, including LLMs, for language processing and speech generation in building callable voice-based bots Lead 5+ projects internally to coordinate teams of linguists and engineers, and interface with respective clients Integrate with clients’ APIs and improve upon internal services, e.g., for language model training and code validation ### Fullstack Engineering Intern @ Argus Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 ### President @ Harvard Organization for Prison Education and Advocacy Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 ### Outreach Director @ Harvard Organization for Prison Education and Advocacy Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ### Mentor @ Harvard Organization for Prison Education and Advocacy Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Sargent House ### Software Engineering Project Manager @ HCS Tech for Social Good Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 ### Policy Fellow, Mindich Service Fellowship @ Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Oakland, California, United States Advocate for policy that advances justice and opportunity for low income communities and communities of color. ### Curatorial Intern @ Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Interviewed artists, wrote exhibition materials, and co-organized the virtual exhibition "Accompanied" featuring feminist tradition and female friendship in art at Radcliffe ### Radcliffe Research Partner @ Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 I research background material, write curatorial statements, correspond with curators, produce models, and help make artworks under conceptual artist and Radcliffe fellow Gala Porras-Kim. ### Associate Arts Editor @ The Harvard Crimson Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Arts writer covering Boston-based and global Arts news, including visual art, film, music, theater, and books for The Crimson, a student-run daily newspaper. Formerly as Columns executive (2018-2019), I worked with Arts columnists to edit biweekly articles and, with the Arts Board, to put the paper into production. ### Student Instructor @ MIT D-Lab Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Athens, Greece Helped design workshop curricula and taught classes on the design process and technical skills including woodworking, electrical circuitry, and 3D modeling/printing to refugee women and boys at Faros' Horizon Center, to the end of using design for empowerment. ### Curatorial Intern @ SculptureCenter Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Queens, New York & Dakar, Senegal Researched Dakar art collective Laboratoire Agit'Art from the SculptureCenter in NY and on the ground in Dakar. Interviewed members of the collective and connected artists; perused Dakar-based libraries; spoke with members of institutions that hosted expositions, demonstrations, and Agit'Art meetings; and collected informational materials ### Research Intern @ Johns Hopkins University, Center for Imaging Science Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Baltimore, Maryland Computational neuroscience research studying the correlation between function of the human vestibular system and shape of the insula within the brain. Used MATLAB and Brainworks software to analyze models of 3D insula surfaces generated from MRI scan segmentations, and presented findings at the CARES Symposium. ### Research Intern @ American Museum of Natural History Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | New York, NY Medical anthropology research on Tanzanian cough pharmaceuticals with African Ethnology specialist Jacklyn Lacey through the Science Research Mentoring Program ### Exchange Student/Youth Ambassador @ U.S. Department of State Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Dakar, Senegal Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Abroad Program ## Education ### Master of Science in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation ### Bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature & Computer Science Harvard University ### High School Diploma Stuyvesant High School ### Senegalese-American Bilingual School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shruthi-venkata --- Source: https://flows.cv/shruthivenkata JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shruthivenkata/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13