Data Lab for Social Good

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## Bahman Rostami-Tabar
Slides: https://www.bahmanrt.com/talk/2025-lomsac/
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## Outline

- Who we are and what we do?

- DL4SG activities

- Projects and partners

- Future plans
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## Outline

- .remember[Who we are and what we do?]

- DL4SG activities

- Projects and partners

- Future plans
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## Our focus

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## What questions interest us?

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## Mission and vision

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- My mission at Data Lab is to create a .remember[nurturing environment] where:
 - we .remember[learn to think]
 - .remember[maximise Ph.D. students potential] as independent researchers and as human being.

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- Position Data Lab as one of the .remember[leading PhD research groups in Europe by 2030].

- PhD graduates to be recognised internationally for their:
  
  - .small[knowledge and skills],
  - .small[rigorous methodologies],
  - .small[research integrity],
  - .small[contributions to social good].

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## Members - Academic staff

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## Members - PhD students
### 13 PhD students linked to the group

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### Enrolled at CU

- Mr. Mustafa Aslan
- Miss. Fatemeh Monshizadeh
- Miss. Udeshi Salgado
- Mr. Amir Salimi Babmiri
- Mr. Mingzhe Shi
- Mr. Rui Xu
- Mr. Harsha Halgamuwe Hewage
- Mr. Joshua Roby-Welford
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### Visiting

- Arebu Issa Bilal, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
- Yemsrach Hailu, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
- Birhanu Shanko Dura, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
- Venessa Wells, University of New England, Australia
- Alfred Sallwa, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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## Outline

- Who we are and what we do?

- .remember[DL4SG activities]

- Projects and partners

- Future plans
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## Lekolin - Research seminars led by Danni and Mustafa

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- Monthly research seminars
  - speakers from DL4SG, CU, and external
  - topics related to data, AI, operations research, and social good
- PhD students present before going to conferences
- Practice how to provide and receive critique
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## Training led by Harsha

Delivering training for and by PhD students to the group and University based on a training need analysis

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### Delivered

- Reprodicubility using Quarto
- Using Zotero
- Introduction to R & RStudio
- Introduction to Python
- AI tools for research
- Inventory modelling
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### Upcoming
- Machine learning with R and Python
- Data visualisation using R & Python
- Agent based modelling
- Optimisation: stochastic and dynamic programming
- Uncertainty quantification
- Causal modelling or modelling to explain
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##  Miri - social activities led by Fatemeh

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##  Yarn - learn to question and think, led by Amir

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##  Linkedin page, website, mailing list led by Udeshi and Ming

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## Annual PhD workshop - Held every October

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## Communication channel

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## Outline

- Who we are and what we do?

- DL4SG activities

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## Some reserach projects

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- Forecasting for staffing in unscheduled care

- Global immunisation (vaccines) supply chain

- Discharge coordination in health & care

- Generative AI in telehealth

- Reproductive health and family planning operations

- Digital twin in healthcare

- Early warning systems for drought response supply chain

- Data driven solutions in fragile settings

- Modelling consumer purchasing behaviour in modern slavery supply chains
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## AFRICAST- Empowering Forecasting Excellence across Africa
### two cohors delivered with total of 180 participants

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## Democratising forecasting
### Since 2018

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## Partners

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## Outline

- Who we are and what we do?

- DL4SG activities

- Projects and partners

- .remember[Future plans]
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## Plan for 2025-2030

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- Continue and improve DL4SG activities

- Collaborate with Doctoral Academy to deliver training on reproducibility, forecasting, R and Python

- Recruiting 10 PhD students by 2030

- Publish a new book on **forecasting & OR for healthcare management: applications in R and Python** (freely accessible by 2027)

- Delivering two summer schools on **forecasting and operations research for healthcare management**

- International Symposium of Forecasting
    - European Conference on Operational Research

- Continue to deliver AFRICAST

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## Thank you

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- All PhD students
- Thanos, Paul, and Danni
- Maneesh, Daniel Gartner
- Marco & Maryam
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## DL4SG honour 2024

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For exceptional contributions that keep the group dynamic, impactful, and aligned with its mission for excellence in research, learning and engagement.
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