Pekham Dey was a Master’s student in the School of Industrial Engineering with a major in data analytics at Purdue University. She received her Bachelor’s in Industrial & Production engineering from MIT, Manipal, India. She has close to 5 years of experience as Technology consultant and in New product development. She has majorly worked in the banking and finance domains with a short stint in the Automative industry. Pekham is a data enthusiast and is very passionate about insights that can be drawn from data. She is currently working as a Research assistant for the Ironhacks team.She focuses her research on analyzing how performance in open data contests improve with transparency.