Venkatesh mụrụ na Delhi, India na ezinụlọ ya kwagara na Perth na Western Australia mgbe ọ dị afọ abụọ. Ọ gara Skọtish College. Nne ya, Svetha, bụ prọfesọ sayensị kọmputa na Mahadum Deakin. Venkatesh gara klas ọzụzụ maka ụmụ akwụkwọ nwere onyinye na mmemme mgbakọ na mwepụ nke steeti, na na 1993, mgbe ọ dị naanị afọ 11, ọ gara asọmpi 24th International Physics Olympiad na Williamsburg, Virginia, merie ọla nchara. N'afọ na-eso ya, ọ tụgharịrị uche ya na mgbakọ na mwepụ na, mgbe ọ na-etinye nke abụọ na Australian Mathematical Olympiad, o nwetara ọla ọcha na 6th Asian Pacific Engineering Mathematics Olympiad, tupu o merie ọla nchara na 1994 International Mathematical Olympiad na Hong Kong. O mezue agụmakwụkwọ ya na afọ 13, na-agbanye na mahadum nke Western Australia, ebe ọ bụ nwa akwụkwọ kachasị mma nke afọ atọ.
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