Vaishnavi Aryapadi completed her undergraduate education in Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University in Chennai, India. She then went on to graduate school at University of Illinois at Chicago where she completed a Master’s in Bioengineering and a Master’s in Management Information Systems. She worked for five years in the financial technology industry before deciding to go back to school to become a physician. She attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University.

She is now a neurology resident at UT Southwestern in Dallas and is planning to apply for a neuromuscular medicine fellowship.