T. Omar Soro, PhD(Economics) MS(Computer Science)
co-CEO & Founder
Technology and Advanced Analytics
Dr. Soro is an Economist/Econometrician, Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Educator and Entrepreneur. He has a dual background in economics and computer science, and has over 18 years combined experience in the private sector (Property and casualty Insurance Industry, Healthcare Technology Industry), higher education in the United States of America (USA) and economic development projects in Africa. Dr. Soro worked for Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation (Boston, MA USA), a property and casualty insurance company building econometric models for risk management purpose. More precisely the work involves using predictive Analytics to build generalized linear model (GLM) such as retention model using survival (Weibull Model and Cox model) analysis, claim frequency model using Poisson model, claim severity model using gamma model, dynamic panel data models, General method of moment, semi-parametric and non-parametric method. He is also working as a programmer analyst and technical support specialist for Meditech (Medical Information Technology Inc, Westwood, Massachusetts), an Electronic Health Record company since 2010. Dr. Soro has a strong background and training in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence acquired during his tenure as a graduate student in computer science. He is familiar with supervised learning methods (Decision Tree, Ensemble methods (Random Forest, Bagging, Boosting), k-nearest neighbor classifier, Regularization, Discriminant Analysis, Support vector machine, Artificial Neural Network, RNN, LSTM, GRU), unsupervised learning (Clustering etc..), reinforcement Learning, deep learning, Computer vision and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Dr. Soro also has experience working in Africa on economic development projects funded by the world Bank, African development bank and IMF. As a local expert, he has worked in the areas of state-own reforms, privatization of government enterprises, private participation infrastructure (Telecommunication, Energy, Transport and Water) and private sector development in Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire - Africa). He also worked on Macroeconomics data as a local expert (Ivory Coast) on projects involving BIDE (Boston institute for developing economies). Dr. Soro participated in an economics training at Yale University (Economics department) in 2016 and was a fellow participant in the summer 2017 Global Studies Outreach workshop training (for educators) on "Cities and our urbanization World" at Harvard University.
Dr. Soro has a PhD in economics from the University of Southern California (USC) and a Master in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts - Boston (Umass Boston). He is fluency in English and French.