A little background

About me

My background is in statistics, data science, and machine learning. I build models, design experiments, and develop decision tools across healthcare, supply chains, pricing, and digital products.

Babaniyi Olaniyi
Based in Barcelona, working across global and cross-functional teams.

Career path

01
Nov 2024—Present

Barcelona · Applied data science

Data Scientist, Causal Foundry

My work spans national medical supply chains, health financing, and facility operations.

  • Build demand-forecasting models and procurement recommendations to support supply planning.
  • Lead the capitation payment methodology, supported by analysis of claims and facility behaviour.
  • Develop provider-performance and anomaly-detection workflows, working with engineers and domain experts to turn results into monitoring and decision tools.
Feb 2023—Sep 2024

Barcelona · Pricing

Senior Data Scientist, ZF Group

Developed pricing-optimization, elasticity, uplift, and anomaly-detection systems for commercial decisions across a large industrial portfolio.

Jul 2021—Feb 2023

Barcelona · Digital health

Data Scientist, Benshi AI

Built demand forecasts, survival models, recommender systems, and adaptive experiments for healthcare workers and pharmacy networks.

2019—2021

Barcelona · Business intelligence

Data & Business Intelligence Analyst, The Alchemist Atelier

Built segmentation and churn models, revenue dashboards, and customer-journey analyses for retail and e-commerce decisions.

2019

Barcelona · Political economy

Research Assistant, IAE-CSIC

Built newspaper-text collection and predictive-modeling workflows to study political violence and conflict risk.

Expertise

02

Research & decisions

Turn product and operational questions into experiments and causal analyses. Communicate findings with clear assumptions, uncertainty, and limitations.

Causal inference · Experimentation · Survival analysis · Forecasting · Bayesian modeling · Decision theory

Applied ML

Build and validate models for forecasting, risk stratification, personalization, and resource allocation, checking for bias and performance beyond the training data.

NLP · Recommender systems · Anomaly detection · Pricing optimization · Multimodal learning · Reinforcement learning

Data & production

Analyse complex longitudinal datasets, assess data quality, and build reproducible Python and SQL workflows. Partner with engineers and domain experts to put models into practice.

Python · SQL · PySpark · BigQuery · Databricks · MLflow · Airflow · Google Cloud · AWS · PyTorch · Scikit-learn

Education

03
2017—2019

MSc Quantitative Economics

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Erasmus Mundus scholar.

2012—2016

BSc Mathematics & Statistics

Kwara State University. First Class Honours.

Recognition

04
  • ML Collective & Google Cloud Credit Award
  • Google Africa Developer Scholarship
  • Best graduating student, School of Statistics and Mathematical Sciences

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