Vaishnavi Perka
Houghton,United States
Summary
Graduate student in Data Science at Michigan Technological University with hands-on experience in text mining, sentiment analysis, and data handling using R. Currently working as a Teaching Assistant in the Physics Department and previously served as a Research Assistant, analyzing large datasets and applying advanced sentiment analysis techniques. Actively seeking a Internship to apply skills in data analysis, machine learning, and statistical modeling, while gaining industry experience and contributing to innovative projects.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Teaching Assistant
Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
09.2025 - Current
- Lead and support undergraduate lab sessions on physics fundamentals, assisting students with experiments and ensuring smooth lab operations.
- Develop strong leadership, communication, and mentoring skills through direct interaction with students and faculty.
- Apply the role as an opportunity to build transferable professional skills, despite physics not being the primary area of study.
Research Assistant
College of Business
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
02.2025 - 05.2025
- Analyzed a large dataset of YouTube comments across multiple brands using R for data cleaning, tokenization, and sentiment analysis.
- Implemented AFINN and Bing methods to classify comments as positive/negative and compared outcomes to evaluate differences and improve accuracy.
- Created a beginner-friendly Jupyter Notebook in R, explaining R basics and demonstrating step-by-step data cleaning, tokenization, and sentiment analysis with AFINN.
Education
Masters - Data Science
Michigan Technological University
Houghton, Michigan05-2026
Skills
- Languages: C, Python, R
- Data Processing & Analytics: ETL, Data Analytics, Web Scraping
- Data Visualization: Tableau, Excel, PowerPoint, Matplotlib
- Database Management: SQL, MySQL
Certification
- Data Science Course - Udemy
- Data Science Training - Adverk Technologies
- Introduction to Data Science - Cisco Networking
- Data Analytics Essentials - Cisco Networking
- Data Analytics and Visualization Job Simulation - Accenture
- Completed a simulation focused on advising a hypothetical social media client as a Data Analyst at Accenture.(Check out the simulation here: https://lnkd.in/geQqYn4t).
Timeline
Teaching Assistant
Department of Physics
09.2025 - Current
Research Assistant
College of Business
02.2025 - 05.2025
Masters - Data Science
Michigan Technological University