The Lubar Entrepreneurship Center is proud to welcome three new Innovation Interns – Priya Devpura, Divyanshu Verma, and Shriya Mehrotra. See below for their biographies, as well as a fun fact about each!
Meet Shriya
Shriya Mehrotra is a senior in Civil Engineering from Schaumburg IL, a suburb of Chicago. Her goals are to be a serial entrepreneur and to help others find their passions in life like she was able to find hers with leadership and construction management. In her spare time, Shriya enjoys cooking, dancing, enjoying pretty views, and spending quality time with the people in her life.
A fun fact about Shriya: Shriya can word for word recite about 3 of her childhood favorite Bollywood movies and knows the plot to almost any other by heart.
Meet Priya
Priya is a graduate student in Management Sciences and Quantitative Analytics and is also pursuing a Business Analytics Certification at UWM. She hails from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, which is affectionately known as the heart of India. Priya is on the path to becoming a data analyst and eventually aims to establish a marketing company that integrates data analysis and machine learning to innovate marketing strategies for products and services. To maintain an active lifestyle, she engages in various physical activities. Priya is particularly fond of playing basketball, working out at the gym, and ice skating, which has become a part of her weekly routine in Milwaukee.
A fun fact about Priya: Beyond her love for sports, Priya is an avid artist. In India, she was known for her work with resin, creating commissioned resin art pieces and teaching the craft to others. Additionally, she pioneered the first startup in India that specialized in the use of jesmonite material, an eco-friendly alternative to resin. She also holds a yellow belt in Karate.
Meet Divyanshu
Divyanshu Verma is a graduate student at UWM and is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Computer Science. He hails from Dehradun, India, and one of his goals for the future is to start a Quant fund of his own. In his spare time Divyanshu reads plenty of books, as well as engaging in tense matches of table tennis.
A fun fact about Divyanshu: He is always confused when telling his fun facts.