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• Quantified biannual impacts of 8 Millennium Villages in Africa with statistical modelling after cleaning and analyzing transport and communication data. • Wrote weekly policy briefs based on the findings, conducted presentations and attended weekly research advisory meetings. Kenya Development Research Institute-KDRI Embu, Kenya Research Scientist in Social-Economics Department May 2011–September 2011

Consulting Experience Spatial Econometrics, Machine Learning, Information Technology and Economic Policy Consultants West Lafayette, IN Data Science Independent Consultant January 2018-Current • Consult on broad areas including data science, spatial econometrics, machine learning, information technology and systems and economic policy. • Solve problems from inception to completion with data analytics. Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis Nairobi, Kenya Consultant May 2017-June 2017 • Built country’s national energy demand status data base through face-to-face surveys using a structured questionnaire. EATTA/UNEP/GEF Nairobi, Kenya Consultant (Virtual Services) May 2015-May 2017 • Estimated the energy demand status and environmental benefits associated with small hydro-power after designing experimental research instrument, collecting, entering, cleaning and statistically analyzing data. • Prepared technical policy report that advised the project managers on the most cost effective method of selling power and surplus and carbon credits based on the analysis. Research and Experimental Design Experience Research Center for Open Digital Innovation West Lafayette, IN Research Scientist May 2018-Dec 2019 and Data Envelopment technical efficiency evaluation models. • Prepared technical reports, presentations and scientific papers. Earth Institute, Columbia University New York, NY Research Assistant in the UN Millennium Village Projects (MVP) September 2014-May 2015

• Developed research tools and questions from reviewed literature, tested hypothesis and validated results to research the innovative new form of organization (online communities and platforms). • Published findings through journal papers and presentations. Purdue University West Lafayette, IN Research Scientist January 2016-May 2018

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• Designed experimental research and supervised data collection and entry activities. • Identified periodical impacts of research project based on statistical data analysis. • Published monthly policy briefs and periodic technical reports that were used for the center’s strategic planning.

• Computed the economic impact of development projects after devising research questions based on theory, cleaning and classifying data and conducting supervised learning input-output analysis using IMPLAN and CGE softwares. • Identified unstructured individual and aggregate firms optimal level of operation based on unstructured data of production. • Calculated technical efficiency of individual firms using parametric and nonparametric, Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences New York, NY M.A. in Sustainable Development October 2013

University of Nairobi, School of Biological and Physical Sciences Nairobi, Kenya BSc . in Mathematics, Honors November 2011 SKILLS Programming Languages: R, GAMS, MATLAB, Python, Pascal, C++ and Octave

Purdue University, Purdue Polytechnic Institute West Lafayette, IN PhD in Information Systems and Spatial Econometrics December 2019 Purdue University, Applied Economics West Lafayette, IN MS in Applied Economics December 2015

Software and Additional Applications: Stata, CGE, IMPLAN, Linux, Machine Learning and ArcGIS 9.3 Spoken Languages: Swahili (Fluent), German (Conversational and Reading) EXPERIENCE Data Science Experience Research Center for Open Digital Innovation West Lafayette, IN Research Scientist December 2019 - Current

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For PhD candidates seeking employment in industry a 2-page resume may be more acceptable than a full curriculum vitae (CV).

• Calculate efficiency of developer communities through application of stochastic dominance, bootstrapping and exponential random graph statistical models on dynamic (time-series) data. • Formulate algorithms to evaluate the impact of developer community network on growth of software developers with supervised Bayesian spatial logistic, fixed effect and interaction statistical and economic models. • Establish diffusion of software prediction algorithms amongst users using supervised and unsupervised learning models including, bass predictive model, Bayesian spatial probit model and network science.

• Contribute to understanding of evolution and optimal operation of online communities and social networks through application of structured and unstructured data and graph mining from nanoHUB.org cyberinfrastructure platform. • Explore data visually and statistically, classified/clustered and analyzed through machine learning algorithms (mathematical and statistical modelling). • Develop both supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms to establish patterns of formation, operation and sustenance of software developers’ community network.

OBJECTIVE Seeking a full-time Data Science position or part-time consultancy position EDUCATION

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