Bio

Short Bio

Current Position

• Associate Professor and Head of Data Science at Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia (MRCG) at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

Previous Positions

• German Research Chair of Mathematics specializing in Data Science at AIMS South Africa and Snr. Lecturer (Asst. Prof.) at the University of Stellenbosch.

• Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at the Mathematics Department and the Institute of Computational Engineering & Sciences (ICES) at the University of Texas at Austin

• Scientist (Postdoctoral Fellow) at the Laboratory for Information and Inference Systems (LIONS) in Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). 

• Graduate Assistant at the University of The Gambia (UTG). 

Education

• PhD in applied and computational mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and the Maxwell Institute.

• MSc was at Oxford University (Wolfson College) in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing. 

• BSc (suma cum laude) in Mathematics and Physics at UTG.