Pinel Baudelaire Thowanou DAHOUI
@pinelbaudelairethowa
Data scientist and AI engineer focused on impactful, data-driven solutions.
What I'm looking for
I am a data scientist and AI engineer with strong mathematical foundations in machine learning, statistical analysis, and AI, currently pursuing an MSc in Applied Statistics for Life Sciences. I have hands-on experience across computer vision, NLP, time series forecasting, and quantitative finance, and I apply rigorous data-driven methods to healthcare, climate, and emerging-market problems.
My work includes award-winning competition performance (Silver Medal, AirQo African Air Quality Prediction Challenge), deployed projects like a portfolio optimization platform tailored to African markets, and research contributions in medical imaging for sickle cell crisis detection and spatial econometrics studies. I also train and mentor others in Python data science and contribute to reproducible, auditable AI solutions.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
AI Researcher
CIPMA-UNESCO Chair
Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 2 months)
Developing an AI system to automatically detect vaso-occlusive crises in sickle cell patients using image segmentation and CNN classification on clinical imaging datasets.
Data Scientist (Independent)
Personal Projects
Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 2 months)
Built and deployed a portfolio optimization platform and developed AI-powered health/security and finance solutions integrating market APIs and interactive visualizations tailored to African markets.
Research Assistant
African Center of Excellence for Blockchain Research
Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 (11 months)
Contributed to designing blockchain architectures for certification and auditability of AI decisions and implemented deep learning models for automated chest X-ray pneumonia diagnosis.
Data Science Trainer
Quinty Mind
Jan 2023 - Dec 2024 (1 year 11 months)
Delivered hands-on Python courses covering data cleaning, SQL, ML model training, evaluation, and unsupervised learning; served as teaching assistant for LaTeX, algorithms, and Python programming.
Competitor / Medalist
AirQo Challenge
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023 (11 months)
Achieved Silver Medal in the AirQo African Air Quality Prediction Challenge by building ensemble models to predict PM2.5 across eight African cities using satellite AOD and ground monitoring data.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
CIPMA-UNESCO Chair
Master of Science, Applied Statistics for Life Sciences
2024 -
Pursuing an MSc in Applied Statistics for Life Sciences with specializations in mathematical statistics, biostatistics, survival analysis, and research methodology.
Africa TechUP Tour
Certification, Data Science & AI
2024 - 2024
Completed a Data Science & AI certification covering time series, SQL, data cleaning, linear and nonlinear models, NLP, and model evaluation.
Institute of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Certification, High-Performance Computing
2023 - 2023
Completed a certification in High-Performance Computing covering HPC clusters, parallel computing, and supercomputer environments for large-scale data analysis.
Simplilearn × Brown University
Certification, Data Science with Python
2023 - 2023
Completed a Data Science with Python certification focusing on Python-based data science workflows and tools.
FASEG UAC BENIN
Bachelor of Science, Econometrics & Applied Statistics
2018 - 2021
Activities and societies: Used tools including Stata, R, and Python.
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Econometrics & Applied Statistics covering time series econometrics, probability and statistics, and financial mathematics.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
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