Shirish Ghimire | Data Analyst at University of Utah

Shirish Ghimire

Data Analyst at University of Utah

Based in Salt Lake City, US

About

Data analyst with 3+ years experience in higher education and healthcare. I build predictive models and NLP systems that drive strategic decisions—from student churn prediction to enterprise dashboards used by university leadership. Recently focused on full-stack ML applications, including RAG-based recommendation systems and deployed risk prediction tools. Currently expanding into modern NLP with entity extraction and embeddings.

Skills

Projects

Student Dropout Prediction — Early Warning System for Student Success

An end-to-end machine learning system that identifies students at risk of dropping out, enabling institutions to prioritize early intervention.

JustHighEd — AI-Powered Academic Program Advisor

A full-stack AI platform helping students discover academic programs through conversational recommendations, side-by-side program comparisons, and ROI analysis. Built a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system using ChromaDB to index 557+ academic programs, enabling semantic search and context-aw

University Program Portfolio Analysis

Conducted a comprehensive analysis of a university’s bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs by evaluating them through both external labor market insights and internal enrollment trends.