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<div class="section-label">Curriculum Vitae</div>
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Pre-doctoral researcher with expertise in development economics, applied econometrics, and climate-conflict dynamics. Current work focuses on the causal links between climate extremes, economic stress, and political violence in Central America, West Africa, and South Asia, using large-scale panel datasets, geospatial methods, and machine learning for causal inference. Strong background in fieldwork, survey design, and policy-relevant research across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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<div class="timeline-period">Jan 2025 – May 2026</div>
<h3>Predoctoral Research Fellowship</h3>
<h4>University of Pennsylvania · PDRI-DevLab · GPA: 3.77/4.0</h4>
<ul><li>Supervisors: Erik Wibbels, Guy Grossman & Irina Marinov</li></ul>
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<div class="timeline-period">Sep 2021 – Oct 2023</div>
<h3>M.Sc. in Mathematics, Economics & Statistics</h3>
<h4>African School of Economics · Benin · GPA: 4.0/4.3</h4>
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<li>Thesis: "Development of a Web-Based Diagnostic Tool for Real-Time Classification and Visualization of Affected Areas in Colposcopy Images." Supervisor: Zimé Songbian.</li>
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<div class="timeline-period">Sep 2018 – Jul 2021</div>
<h3>B.Sc. in Statistics & Computer Science</h3>
<h4>African School of Economics · Benin · GPA: 15.65/20</h4>
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<li>Thesis: "Impact of Digitalization on the Economy of WAEMU Countries." Supervisor: Nicodème Atchadé.</li>
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<h3>Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow</h3>
<h4>Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI-DevLab) · University of Pennsylvania</h4>
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<li>Constructed cross-country monthly climate-conflict panel datasets integrating ERA5, SPEI, MLEED, EM-DAT, and FAO food-price series across 20 Central American countries (2012–2024).</li>
<li>Designed and estimated distributed-lag, panel fixed-effects, interaction, and climate-threshold models to test climate-conflict pathways.</li>
<li>Applied ElasticNet regularization for data-driven lag selection, improving model parsimony and out-of-sample fit.</li>
<li>Developed automated geospatial extraction workflows for temperature, precipitation, and drought indicators at the administrative-unit level.</li>
<li>Applied Python-based analysis to assess climate impacts on agriculture and migration in Central America, contributing to the Global Climate Security Atlas (Marinov Lab, Penn EII); work named in Penn Today and Phys.org (Jul. 2025).</li>
<li>Contributed to a cluster-randomized evaluation of a school- and community-based intervention targeting sexual violence in Liberia (150 dyads; 2,160 girls, 1,187 caregivers); conducted HFCs, monitored safeguarding triggers ensuring 26 disclosures were escalated under the differentiated referral protocol.</li>
<li>Evaluated GPT-4 and Gemini for geographic entity extraction from conflict-related news text; benchmarked against CLIFF-CLAVIN and human-coded data (2026).</li>
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<div class="timeline-period">Sep 2023 – Dec 2024</div>
<h3>Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant</h3>
<h4>African School of Economics (ASE) · Benin</h4>
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<li>Led data harmonization across large-scale multi-country surveys for COVID-19 socio-economic impact studies in Benin, Burkina Faso, and South Africa.</li>
<li>Produced food security analyses using FCS, DDS, and rCSI indicators; informed monitoring reports and policy briefs submitted to development partners.</li>
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<div class="timeline-period">Sep 2021 – Sep 2023</div>
<h3>Research & Teaching Assistant</h3>
<h4>Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IERPE) · ASE</h4>
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<li>Collected, cleaned, and processed data; conducted econometric and geospatial analyses using R, Stata, Python, and QGIS.</li>
<li>Coordinated field teams and ensured data quality across survey rounds.</li>
<li>TA for Mathematics for Economics, Linear Algebra, Econometrics, and Algorithms & Computation.</li>
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<h3>Assistant to the Technical Director</h3>
<h4>Ministry of Digitalization · Cotonou, Benin</h4>
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<li>Developed machine learning tools for plant pathology detection; contributed to disease-detection projects (including malaria) and supported cross-departmental project coordination.</li>
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<h3>Intern, Customer Experience Service</h3>
<h4>MTN Benin · Cotonou, Benin</h4>
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<li>Designed and supervised an online customer satisfaction survey; applied predictive modeling to identify drivers of churn; produced actionable recommendations adopted by the CES team.</li>
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<span class="skill-tag">Econometrics</span><span class="skill-tag">Causal Inference</span>
<span class="skill-tag">Panel Data</span><span class="skill-tag">Time Series</span>
<span class="skill-tag">Machine Learning</span><span class="skill-tag">Geospatial Analysis</span>
<span class="skill-tag">Distributed-Lag Models</span><span class="skill-tag">Mediation Analysis</span>
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<div class="award-item"><span class="award-year">2021–2023</span><span class="award-name">World Bank Excellence Scholarship</span></div>
<div class="award-item"><span class="award-year">2018–2021</span><span class="award-name">ASE Excellence Scholarship</span></div>
<div class="award-item"><span class="award-year">2025</span><span class="award-name">CITI — Social & Behavioral Research Refresher · University of Pennsylvania</span></div>
<div class="award-item"><span class="award-year">2025</span><span class="award-name">CITI — Human Research & Social/Behavioral Research · University of Pennsylvania</span></div>
<div class="award-item"><span class="award-year">—</span><span class="award-name">Macroeconomics Diagnosis · International Monetary Fund</span></div>
<div class="award-item"><span class="award-year">—</span><span class="award-name">Financial Markets for Public Policy · Princeton University</span></div>
<div class="award-item"><span class="award-year">—</span><span class="award-name">Data Science: Machine Learning · Harvard University</span></div>
<div class="award-item"><span class="award-year">—</span><span class="award-name">Impact Evaluation & Reproducible Research · World Bank Group</span></div>
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