Research Areas:
Technology-mediated learning; Software project management; Open source practices

Recent Consulting:
Training on statistical methods for TESCO
Training on software project management for NDS
Mathematics anchor for a TV program called Topper, a joint venture of Network 18 and Educomp. Completed 140 episodes covering the syllabus of Classes XI & XII

Current Projects:
Project coordinator for the SPLINE project, funded by grants from IIM Bangalore. The project aims at building an open source e-learning platform well-suited for self-paced learning

Other Positions:
Solutions Architect, Reuters Consulting, Boston, August 2001 - March 2002
Solutions Engineer, Curl Corporation, Cambridge, MA, March 1999 - July 2001
Lead Developer, Sapient Corporation, Cambridge, MA, August 1996 -  February 1999
Associate Co-op Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices, Austin, September 1994 -  March 1995

Significant Publications:

Journal articles
- S Venkatagiri; 'Shikshan - a hybrid framework to augment instructional video'; IIMB Management Review, Vol 16, September 2004

- L A Bunimovich and S Venkatagiri; 'On one mechanism of transition to chaos in lattice dynamical systems'; Physics Reports, Vol 290, October 1997

- L ABunimovich and S.Venkatagiri; 'Onset of chaos in coupled map lattices via the peak-crossing bifurcation'; Nonlinearity (Vol 9, September 1996)

Interviews
- Empowering the bottom of the pyramid from the sky: a case for satellite-based services; Dr Madhavan Nair in conversation with Shankar Venkatagiri; IIMB Management Review, Vol 17, September 2005

Conference proceedings

- S Venkatagiri; Teach Project Management, pack an Agile punch. Proceedings of the 24th IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training, Hawaii, May 2011

- S Venkatagiri; 'Promoting collaborative e-learning with the SPLINE framework'; Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing, Salamanca, February 2007

- S Venkatagiri; 'Engineering the Software Requirements of Non-profits - a Service-learning Approach'; Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering, Shanghai, May 2006

Cases

- Wooqer: Making Business Social. Distributed via Harvard Business Publishing (IMB 411/413) (February 2013)
Authors: Shankar Venkatagiri and Yalla Veera Prakash
- Mudra Communications: Ivey Publishing Case 9B11E030 (September 2011)
Authors: Nicole R.D. Haggerty, Shankar Venkatagiri, Ramasastry Chandrasekhar

- Mercedes-Benz India: Ivey Publishing Case 9B11E009 (May 2011)
Authors: Nicole R.D. Haggerty, Shankar Venkatagiri, Ramasastry Chandrasekhar

Articles

- S.Venkatagiri. Building Bridges, a 3-part series. EDUTech (February 2012)