About

Vaibhavi Mehta is a passionate Information Technology professional with over 11 years of experience in the field. She is currently pursuing an MS in Information Management from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Vaibhavi has a keen interest in the relationships between data, technology, people, and businesses and how they influence each other. Her hands-on experience in the industry has made her proficient in building strong customer relationships during high-pressure scenarios and developing a good understanding of business processes and systems. Currently, Vaibhavi is a second-year graduate student and works part-time as a Data Visualization and Business Analytics Intern at AGCO Corporation, a Fortune 500 AgTech company that specializes in smart farming solutions. In this role, she creates automated Tableau dashboards with live connections to various databases such as MS SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle JDE, and SAP BI. Previously, Vaibhavi worked part-time on a project with the World Health Organization (WHO) at the Center for Health Informatics as a Data Scientist (Graduate Assistant), where she researched ways to prevent the spread of Covid-19 misinformation on the web and social media. Vaibhavi has also worked as a Graduate Assistant on another part-time project within the Digital Humanities domain with the university's department of African American Studies. Here, she trained scholars across the United States focusing on the HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) in several digital publishing platforms, for which she learned Adobe Premiere Pro for video production and the publishing tools on her own. Her coursework includes Data Science, Data Visualization, Business Intelligence, Statistical Modeling, Competitive Intelligence, Information Consulting, Emerging Technology and Disruption, Information Modeling, and Sociotechnical Information Systems. Vaibhavi has a GPA of 3.89/4.00. Her relevant experience in the field is 3.11 years. Vaibhavi is currently working as a Business Research Analyst-Outdoor Project Trainee at Cipla. She has a strong tech stack that includes Research Scientist, Data Scientist, SQL, and Web.