Chiraz Benabdelkader, Phd, Mph Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Delivered advanced data analysis services to over five non-profit organizations globally, collaborating with data professionals and client stakeholders to deliver actionable insights.Key achievements:• Processed over 85,000 household survey responses pertaining to the assessment of UNICEF's humanitarian response in Afghanistan using R and ggplot. Developed complex data preprocessing algorithms for harmonized coding and created visual summaries of key public health indicators (WaSH), offering insights for more in-depth future analysis.• Conducted a comprehensive analysis in Python of 700+ survey responses for a mental health program in Australia. Applied advanced techniques, including sentiment analysis and statistical hypothesis testing. Findings helped optimize the organization's data collection and preparation processes and strengthen its capacity to produce data-driven investor impact reports.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Curated, wrangled, and analyzed large volumes of complex pregnancy-related clinical and medical device data to improve perinatal outcomes, collaborating closely with clinicians and research scientists. Key achievements: - Created and evaluated machine learning models using Python for grouping fetal ultrasound images into anatomical categories, culminating in a best paper award. - Developed text analytics methods in Python to extract key information from 120k+ clinical ultrasound reports. - Designed algorithms in Python and R to analyze maternal and fetal vitals of over 10k pregnant women recorded during labor via wearable sensors. - Led comprehensive reviews of a codebase comprising thousands of lines in SAS, Python, and Stata; Delivered improvements in the efficiency and accuracy of the organization’s data workflows, combined with detailed documentation, including flowcharts, data dictionaries, and process descriptions.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Supported data-driven curriculum evaluation projects, contributing to collecting, cleaning, and validating academic and curricular data such as student surveys and faculty information.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Developed, monitored, and maintained production models to optimize agent-customer matching at call centers for major US telecom operators, leading to increased business revenue.Key achievements: - Authored over 3,000 lines of code in Python, SQL, and R for data validation, pre-deployment testing, model deployment, and performance monitoring. - Identified and resolved complex bugs in large R codebases, enhancing the development and performance of production models.

Manouba, Tunisia

Taught basic and advanced Computer Science courses, including programming languages, algorithm design and analysis, data structures, and data science.Key achievements: - Launched and taught introductory Master-level courses on data mining and Big data using Python and R. - Supervised 5+ capstone projects annually in collaboration with local IT companies, guiding students through all stages of their capstone projects, from problem framing to final report writing.

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Public Health

with concentration in global health

Phd, Computer Science

· Thesis Title: Gait as a biometric for person identification in video sequences · Advisor: Prof. Larry S. Davis

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Engineering, 3.93/4.0 With Honors.

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi honor society Eta Kappa Nu honor society