Based on gender diversity analysis of 1.5m research papers, Venkatesh is one of the top 15 women in the world contributing to artificial intelligence research. She was elected a Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition in 2004 for her contributions to the "formulation and extraction of semantics in multimedia data". She was also elected a
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2006 and an
ARC Laureate Fellow in June 2017. She was inducted onto the
Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2018 and was elected a Fellow of the
Australian Academy of Science in May 2021. Venkatesh delivered the 2015 Harrison Lecture for Innovation. In November 2024 the
Pearcey Foundation awarded Venkatesh the 2024 Pearcey Medal in recognition of a distinguished lifetime of achievement and contribution to the development and growth of the Australian ICT industry. == Personal life ==