Shivangi Chopra

Shivangi Chopra is a graduate student in the Department of Management Sciences at the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Waterloo. After graduating on the Dean’s Honours List and receiving a B.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, she joined the Information Systems paradigm of the Management Sciences department where she specializes in big data analytics. She is interested in issues related to the dissemination, quality, applicability and retention of education and she employs various data mining tools to get a deeper understanding of the same. Her research has contributed in revealing striking attributes about student entrepreneurs and how they benefit the University ecosystem. Her current research uses data science to examine whether a gap exists between what co-op employers expect from students versus what students desire from their co-op jobs.