Vaibhav Ravinutala

Data Engineer | Researcher

Vanderbilt University TV News Archive

Education

Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Tennessee Tech University

Professional Experience

Data Engineer

Vanderbilt University TV News Archive, 2024 - Present

  • Designed and maintained scalable ETL pipelines for academic data warehousing.
  • Successfully migrated 100k records from 1968 - present to a new Aurora MySQL database from the classic database.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to improve data quality and reporting.

Research Assistant

Tennessee Tech University, 2019 - 2023

  • Graduate Assistant: Conducted independent research on low-cost flash flood warning systems using NB-IoT.
  • Teaching Assistant: Handled multiple laboratory sessions for undergraduate courses.
  • Adjunct Lecturer: Taught MET Industrial Electronics.

Selected Publications and Talks

Sample calculation of Link Power Budget and Effective SNR in NB-IoT
R. S. K. Vaibhav and T. S. Reddy
2018 2nd International Conference on I-SMAC (IoT in Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud), Palladam, India (2018), pp. 30-32
DOI: 10.1109/I-SMAC.2018.8653684
Keywords: Signal to noise ratio; Downlink; Uplink; 3GPP; Bandwidth; Long Term Evolution; Channel estimation; LPWAN; NB-IoT; 3GPP; 5G

Skills

  • Python, SQL, R, Scala, Spark
  • ETL, AI/ML, NLP, Databricks
  • Data Visualization: Tableau, Power BI
  • Cloud: AWS, Azure

Certifications

  • AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Associate
  • AWS Certified: Data Engineer Associate

Research Interests

  • Data librarianship and information management strategies
  • Data engineering practices and data pipeline optimization
  • Artificial Intelligence applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Sentiment analysis and text mining in media research
  • Ethics and privacy in data handling and AI applications
  • Interdisciplinary approaches to media research using data analytics
  • Integration of AI tools in enhancing information retrieval systems