Urmi Bhayani is a first year Masters student at the Computer and Information Technology Department at Purdue University. She has completed her Bachelors Degree in Engineering (IT) from University of Pune, India.

Currently a Graduate Research Assistant, Urmi's research area lies in the field of Big Data Analytics as applied to proteomics data. She hopes to work in the IT industry after the completion of her Masters degree. Urmi's areas of interest include data mining and information retrieval.