Bapu Vaitla
City of Davis Councilmember (currently Mayor); Lecturer at the University of California-Davis; Data2X Digital Data Fellow
- Role
- \'big Data & the Global Gender Data Gap\' Project Co-coordinator, Data2x at United Nations Foundation
- Location
- Davis, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Bapu Vaitla
Objective: To contribute to the alleviation of child undernutrition, especially stunting.…
Experience
\'big Data & the Global Gender Data Gap\' Project Co-coordinator, Data2x
Jan 2014 — Present · Washington, CA
Coordinating big data project portfolio for Data2X. Projects include: using satellite data to increase spatial resolution of Demographic and Health Surveys data pertaining to women\'s welfare (Flowminder Foundation); using twitter data to discern patterns of mental health among adolescent girls in South Africa, India, and Mexico (Dr. Munmun de Choudhury, Georgia Tech and INEGI), as well as opinions on post-2015 sustainable development goals topics (UN Global Pulse); using cell phone data to infer patterns of women\'s socio-economic welfare and mobility (with UN Global Pulse).
Education
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), International Relations (Development Economics; Human Security; Political Economy)
2008 — 2012
University of California, Davis
Bachelor's Degree, Nature and Culture (Human Ecology)
1995 — 2000
University of California, Davis
Master's Degree, International Agricultural Development (Agricultural Economics; Agroecology)
2001 — 2004
Skills
- Policy
- Economics
- Public Health
- Data Analysis
- Public Policy
- Food Security
- Political Science
- Hindi
- Spanish
- Program Evaluation
- Spss
- Policy Analysis
- Rural Development
- International Development
- French
- Portuguese
- Stata
- Gis
- Research
- International Relations
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