Vincent Vanderputten Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Boston

▪ Analyzed 2+ million farmer profiles and 100’s millions engagement data points for PxD’s India-based agricultural advisory service, to monitor operations and derive insights on farmer pick-up, listening, and other engagement metrics.▪ Built rice-yield prediction model using remote sensing to make impact evaluations more cost effective: from data prep (e.g. processing PlanetScope and Sentinel-2 RS data in GEE and python into VI-features), to data QA (e.g. developing a custom Google Earth Engine (GEE) app to perform QA and correct 14k+ collected plot boundaries), to model training.▪ Developed Django-based AWS-backed website (front & back-end) to enabled 100+ call center staff to continue onboarding farmers from home (pandemic) using custom SurveyJS integration, and to host an A/B-tested self-enrollment webform for farmers, reducing the marginal cost of onboarding farmers to ~zero.▪ Initiated and executed data cleaning and standardization processes (e.g. from dta-files to postgres; standardizing farmer location data using fuzzy matching and google maps API; automating data pipelines from 3rd parties to internal systems).▪ Supported operations and research (e.g. sampling, survey design, field ops, map creation, data security, analysis)▪ Maintained PxD’s global AWS-backed systems (Mattermost, ODK central) and piloted a WhatsApp chatbot.

Greater Boston Area

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

▪ Developed Root Capital’s current Probability of Default (PD) risk model, resulting in reduced portfolio risk and a projected annual loss-reduction of ~$500,000 on ~$65MM of investments. (In python using LASSO Logit model)▪ Data wrangling and cross-departmental aggregation to drive novel research related to impact, growth, and performance.▪ Analyze borrower’s growth paths and access to finance: get historical trends, find drivers of growth, and generate insights.▪ Reworked the quantitative and analytical underpinnings of Root Capital’s Efficient Impact Frontier (EIF) framework.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Rwanda

Laterite is Rwanda's most reputable data, research, and advisory firm, offering full life-cycle projects: from design to data collection, analysis, and policy advice. Clients range from NGO’s and firms to World Bank and government.As a consultant to Laterite, I developed predictive models of repetition and dropout for the Ministry of Education to predict and preempt individual pupil repetition and dropout.

Rwanda

▪ Developed sampling and survey strategy to meet stratification requirements, maintain i.i.d., and increase efficiency.▪ Performed analysis, research, and writing on education and teacher training to optimize Mastercard Foundation’s funding.▪ Created a model for the Ministry of Education to predict and preempt pupil repetition and dropout.

Antwerp Area, Belgium

▪ Analyzed impact of shocks on financial flows, financial device use, and remittances of Kenyan households by performing econometric analysis (Stata) on 11-month panel data of financial flows and device use by 300 households.

Mbale (Uganda)

As part of the Belgian development agency's €8MM project in Uganda that sought to improve institutional capacity at the Ministry of Health, I:▪ Established the Ministry of Health’s eLearning program for continued professional development of health workers.▪ Presented at the 2014 eLearning Africa conference, to 700+ participants from 70 countries.

Antwerp Area, Belgium

In partnership with 12 companies, in this 2-year project to increase private sector adoption of OPC UA, a standard protocol in data and web-based industrial communication, I:▪ Developed C# implementations of OPC UA client/server software; supported project partners’ software development.▪ Organized presentations, workshops, and a one day conference with 90+ international attendees.

Master Of Public Administration In International Development (Mpaid), Development Economics And International Development, 3.83

▪ Area of study: Economics and international development (sub-focus: Econometrics and data science) ▪ Highlighted coursework: Advanced.

Msc In Photonics, Engineering, Magna Cum Laude

Erasmus Mundus MSc in photonics | Studied one semester each at: o Ghent University o VUB Brussels o KTH Stockholm o The University.

Exchange Program For Msc In Photonics, Solar Cell Technology

Erasmus Mundus Grant for one-semester master thesis research on Quantum Well Solar Cells at Tokyo University, co-kick-starting the Nakano.

Bsc In Electrical Engineering, Cum Laude

Selected Coursework: Real analysis, Linear algebra, Statistics, Programming, Signal processing, Dynamic systems, Quantum physics, etc.

Bachelor Of Philosophy -- 60% Completed

Out of personal interest, I enrolled in the Bachelor of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp for 2 years. This was the evening-class.