Meet The Team
BSN Board Bio
The Burkinabe Students Network (BSN) Welcome Package With The Board Members Biography
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Salfo Bikienga
PhD in Statistics and in Economics with advanced knowledge of Natural Language Processing. Strong background in economics, econometrics, and statistics. 7+ years of experience working with data, teaching statistics at undergraduate and graduate levels; and working as a Data Scientist for a consulting firm. Deep theoretical and practical knowledge of descriptive and predictive modeling.
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Developed web applications and visualization tools that tell a “story” focused on insights conducive to forecasting models improvement.
- Applied topic modeling to demonstrate that political leaders’ consistency over economic issues predict positive economic outcome.
- Applied Variational Bayes methods to create a Supervised Topic Modeling Algorithm that improves topics predictive power.
PROJECTS
- Maintain a blog:http://www.salfobikienga.rbind.io/
- Built Shiny Web Applications for exploratory data analysis:
- https://bbr-cba-unl-human-capital.shinyapps.io/MyShiny/;
- https://salif.shinyapps.io/topic_context/
- Built a big data missing missing values and outliers detection tool, combined with a missing data imputation method, for time series data.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Machine Learning: Classification, Clustering, Natural Language Processing… Statistical Methods: Design of Experiments, Latent variables models such as: Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, Canonical Correlation Analysis, Structural Equation Modeling, Partial Least Squares Modeling. Econometrics: Time Series Analysis, Panel or Longitudinal Data Analysis, Quasi-Experiment Methods, Regression Methods such as: OLS, Logistic Regression, Quantile Regression… Software and Programming Languages:R programming, Python, SAS, SQL EDUCATION
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Harounan Kazianga
Prof. Harounan Kazianga is currently The Carson Priority Excellence Professor of Economics at Oklahoma State University. He is a development economist whose research focuses on rural economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa. He conducts extensive field research in West Africa on technological change in agriculture, the use of financial markets, asset accumulation and gift exchange to cope with risk, gender relations and the structure of household economies, property rights, access to education and a variety of other aspects of rural economic organization. He holds an undergraduate degree and a Master degree from the University of Ouagadougou and a PhD from Purdue University. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University and Columbia University.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Patrice Sanou
STRUCTURES DE FORMATION
- CEG Bobo-Dioulasso
- Lycée Municipal Bobo-Dioulasso
- Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo de Ouagadougou
- CIRAD/Montpellier/France
- South Dakota State University/Etats Unis
ETUDES / DIPLÔMES
Baccalauréat Série D (Mathématiques et Sciences de la nature)
Licence en analyse rurale
Bachelor (Maîtrise) en cultures irriguées
Master of Science en télédétection aérospatiale et système
d’information géographique
Doctorat (PhD) en technologies spatiales et gestion des ressources naturelles
Spécialisé en géoscience, écologie et géographie
Expert en changements climatiques
Chercheur CIRAD (Centre Coopération internationale en Recherche
Agronomique pour le Développement)/Montpellier
INSTITUTIONS COURANTES D’ACTIVITÉ
SERVIR WEST AFRICA/NASA Point Focal Burkina UNION AFRICAINE: Africa Science and Technologies Advisory Group for Disaster Risk Reduction (AfSTAG/DRR) Global Monitoring of Environment and Security / Africa GROUP on EARTH OBSERVATION (GEO) IINSTITUT SUPERIEUR D’ETUDES SPATIALES ET TELECOMMUNBICATIONS (ISESTEL) UNIVERSITE JOSEPH KI-ZERBO INSTITUT PEDAGOGIQUE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT EN AFIQUE DE L’OUEST ET DU SAHAL
FONCTIONS
2019-2020
Professeur Emérite Technologies spatiales
Expert Af-STAG/DRR (Union Africaine)
Principal GEO (Group on Earth Observation)
Directeur Général ISESTEL
Coordonnateur GMES & Africa (Union Africaine) au Burkina
Coordonnateur SERVIR-WA/NASA (USAID) Burkina
Co-chair Land Degradation Neutrality/UNCCD
Chair Réseau des Universités Francophones d’Enseignement de Technologies Spatiales (Union Africaine)
Expert International de l’OMVS (Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du fleuve Sénégal)
Enseignant géomatique IPD/AOS
Enseignant géomatique Département Géographie de l’Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo (GEOCFID)
Enseignant géomatique ISESTEL
Expert Technique PAAEDC/ Convention Maires Sud Sahara
Expert FAO/FFEM Dégradation des terres Burkina
2010-2018
Membre Conseil d’Administration Université Saint Thomas d’Aquin
Fondateur ISESTEL
2003-2009
Secrétaire Permanent AfricaGIS2007
Membre du Conseil d’Administration SIE-Afrique
1990-2003
Consultant indépendant en technologies spatiales
Directeur Technique GEOCONSEIL
Chef de service informatique et SIG de l’Institut Géographique du Burkina (IGB)
Chef de service scientifique et technique Station de Recherche de Kamboinsé (INERA)
Chercheur Institut de l’Environnement et Recherches Agricoles (CNRST/INERA)
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Edouard Wemy
Dr. Wemy received his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics at Ohio Dominican University, and his Ph.D. in Economics in 2015 from Emory University.
Dr. Wemy’s research interests are in macroeconomics and time series with applications in business cycles and total factor productivity and the emphasis on the importance of technological progress embodied in capital equipment. He teaches macroeconomics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Brice Zoungrana is a geospatial expert with extensive academic and professional experience. He holds degrees in Macroeconomics, Geomatics, Geography (GIS), and a PhD in Geography from Oklahoma State University, specializing in Nature-Society Dynamics. As Director of Geospatial Technologies at ArborPro, Inc., he leverages advanced geospatial tools for environmental and agricultural projects. Certified in UAS, Google Project Management, and Drilling Basics, he is also an active mentor and community leader within BSN.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Brice Zoungrana is a geospatial expert with extensive academic and professional experience. He holds degrees in Macroeconomics, Geomatics, Geography (GIS), and a PhD in Geography from Oklahoma State University, specializing in Nature-Society Dynamics. As Director of Geospatial Technologies at ArborPro, Inc., he leverages advanced geospatial tools for environmental and agricultural projects. Certified in UAS, Google Project Management, and Drilling Basics, he is also an active mentor and community leader within BSN.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Brice Zoungrana is a geospatial expert with extensive academic and professional experience. He holds degrees in Macroeconomics, Geomatics, Geography (GIS), and a PhD in Geography from Oklahoma State University, specializing in Nature-Society Dynamics. As Director of Geospatial Technologies at ArborPro, Inc., he leverages advanced geospatial tools for environmental and agricultural projects. Certified in UAS, Google Project Management, and Drilling Basics, he is also an active mentor and community leader within BSN.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Brice Zoungrana is a geospatial expert with extensive academic and professional experience. He holds degrees in Macroeconomics, Geomatics, Geography (GIS), and a PhD in Geography from Oklahoma State University, specializing in Nature-Society Dynamics. As Director of Geospatial Technologies at ArborPro, Inc., he leverages advanced geospatial tools for environmental and agricultural projects. Certified in UAS, Google Project Management, and Drilling Basics, he is also an active mentor and community leader within BSN.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Salfo Bikienga
PhD in Statistics and in Economics with advanced knowledge of Natural Language Processing. Strong background in economics, econometrics, and statistics. 7+ years of experience working with data, teaching statistics at undergraduate and graduate levels; and working as a Data Scientist for a consulting firm. Deep theoretical and practical knowledge of descriptive and predictive modeling.
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Developed web applications and visualization tools that tell a “story” focused on insights conducive to forecasting models improvement.
- Applied topic modeling to demonstrate that political leaders’ consistency over economic issues predict positive economic outcome.
- Applied Variational Bayes methods to create a Supervised Topic Modeling Algorithm that improves topics predictive power.
PROJECTS
- Maintain a blog:http://www.salfobikienga.rbind.io/
- Built Shiny Web Applications for exploratory data analysis:
- https://bbr-cba-unl-human-capital.shinyapps.io/MyShiny/;
- https://salif.shinyapps.io/topic_context/
- Built a big data missing missing values and outliers detection tool, combined with a missing data imputation method, for time series data.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Machine Learning: Classification, Clustering, Natural Language Processing… Statistical Methods: Design of Experiments, Latent variables models such as: Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, Canonical Correlation Analysis, Structural Equation Modeling, Partial Least Squares Modeling. Econometrics: Time Series Analysis, Panel or Longitudinal Data Analysis, Quasi-Experiment Methods, Regression Methods such as: OLS, Logistic Regression, Quantile Regression… Software and Programming Languages:R programming, Python, SAS, SQL EDUCATION
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Harounan Kazianga
Prof. Harounan Kazianga is currently The Carson Priority Excellence Professor of Economics at Oklahoma State University. He is a development economist whose research focuses on rural economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa. He conducts extensive field research in West Africa on technological change in agriculture, the use of financial markets, asset accumulation and gift exchange to cope with risk, gender relations and the structure of household economies, property rights, access to education and a variety of other aspects of rural economic organization. He holds an undergraduate degree and a Master degree from the University of Ouagadougou and a PhD from Purdue University. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University and Columbia University.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Patrice Sanou
STRUCTURES DE FORMATION
- CEG Bobo-Dioulasso
- Lycée Municipal Bobo-Dioulasso
- Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo de Ouagadougou
- CIRAD/Montpellier/France
- South Dakota State University/Etats Unis
ETUDES / DIPLÔMES
Baccalauréat Série D (Mathématiques et Sciences de la nature)
Licence en analyse rurale
Bachelor (Maîtrise) en cultures irriguées
Master of Science en télédétection aérospatiale et système
d’information géographique
Doctorat (PhD) en technologies spatiales et gestion des ressources naturelles
Spécialisé en géoscience, écologie et géographie
Expert en changements climatiques
Chercheur CIRAD (Centre Coopération internationale en Recherche
Agronomique pour le Développement)/Montpellier
INSTITUTIONS COURANTES D’ACTIVITÉ
SERVIR WEST AFRICA/NASA Point Focal Burkina UNION AFRICAINE: Africa Science and Technologies Advisory Group for Disaster Risk Reduction (AfSTAG/DRR) Global Monitoring of Environment and Security / Africa GROUP on EARTH OBSERVATION (GEO) IINSTITUT SUPERIEUR D’ETUDES SPATIALES ET TELECOMMUNBICATIONS (ISESTEL) UNIVERSITE JOSEPH KI-ZERBO INSTITUT PEDAGOGIQUE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT EN AFIQUE DE L’OUEST ET DU SAHAL
FONCTIONS
2019-2020
Professeur Emérite Technologies spatiales
Expert Af-STAG/DRR (Union Africaine)
Principal GEO (Group on Earth Observation)
Directeur Général ISESTEL
Coordonnateur GMES & Africa (Union Africaine) au Burkina
Coordonnateur SERVIR-WA/NASA (USAID) Burkina
Co-chair Land Degradation Neutrality/UNCCD
Chair Réseau des Universités Francophones d’Enseignement de Technologies Spatiales (Union Africaine)
Expert International de l’OMVS (Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du fleuve Sénégal)
Enseignant géomatique IPD/AOS
Enseignant géomatique Département Géographie de l’Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo (GEOCFID)
Enseignant géomatique ISESTEL
Expert Technique PAAEDC/ Convention Maires Sud Sahara
Expert FAO/FFEM Dégradation des terres Burkina
2010-2018
Membre Conseil d’Administration Université Saint Thomas d’Aquin
Fondateur ISESTEL
2003-2009
Secrétaire Permanent AfricaGIS2007
Membre du Conseil d’Administration SIE-Afrique
1990-2003
Consultant indépendant en technologies spatiales
Directeur Technique GEOCONSEIL
Chef de service informatique et SIG de l’Institut Géographique du Burkina (IGB)
Chef de service scientifique et technique Station de Recherche de Kamboinsé (INERA)
Chercheur Institut de l’Environnement et Recherches Agricoles (CNRST/INERA)
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Edouard Wemy
Dr. Wemy received his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics at Ohio Dominican University, and his Ph.D. in Economics in 2015 from Emory University.
Dr. Wemy’s research interests are in macroeconomics and time series with applications in business cycles and total factor productivity and the emphasis on the importance of technological progress embodied in capital equipment. He teaches macroeconomics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Brice Zoungrana is a geospatial expert with extensive academic and professional experience. He holds degrees in Macroeconomics, Geomatics, Geography (GIS), and a PhD in Geography from Oklahoma State University, specializing in Nature-Society Dynamics. As Director of Geospatial Technologies at ArborPro, Inc., he leverages advanced geospatial tools for environmental and agricultural projects. Certified in UAS, Google Project Management, and Drilling Basics, he is also an active mentor and community leader within BSN.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Brice Zoungrana is a geospatial expert with extensive academic and professional experience. He holds degrees in Macroeconomics, Geomatics, Geography (GIS), and a PhD in Geography from Oklahoma State University, specializing in Nature-Society Dynamics. As Director of Geospatial Technologies at ArborPro, Inc., he leverages advanced geospatial tools for environmental and agricultural projects. Certified in UAS, Google Project Management, and Drilling Basics, he is also an active mentor and community leader within BSN.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Brice Zoungrana is a geospatial expert with extensive academic and professional experience. He holds degrees in Macroeconomics, Geomatics, Geography (GIS), and a PhD in Geography from Oklahoma State University, specializing in Nature-Society Dynamics. As Director of Geospatial Technologies at ArborPro, Inc., he leverages advanced geospatial tools for environmental and agricultural projects. Certified in UAS, Google Project Management, and Drilling Basics, he is also an active mentor and community leader within BSN.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Brice Zoungrana is a geospatial expert with extensive academic and professional experience. He holds degrees in Macroeconomics, Geomatics, Geography (GIS), and a PhD in Geography from Oklahoma State University, specializing in Nature-Society Dynamics. As Director of Geospatial Technologies at ArborPro, Inc., he leverages advanced geospatial tools for environmental and agricultural projects. Certified in UAS, Google Project Management, and Drilling Basics, he is also an active mentor and community leader within BSN.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Salfo Bikienga
PhD in Statistics and in Economics with advanced knowledge of Natural Language Processing. Strong background in economics, econometrics, and statistics. 7+ years of experience working with data, teaching statistics at undergraduate and graduate levels; and working as a Data Scientist for a consulting firm. Deep theoretical and practical knowledge of descriptive and predictive modeling.
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Developed web applications and visualization tools that tell a “story” focused on insights conducive to forecasting models improvement.
- Applied topic modeling to demonstrate that political leaders’ consistency over economic issues predict positive economic outcome.
- Applied Variational Bayes methods to create a Supervised Topic Modeling Algorithm that improves topics predictive power.
PROJECTS
- Maintain a blog:http://www.salfobikienga.rbind.io/
- Built Shiny Web Applications for exploratory data analysis:
- https://bbr-cba-unl-human-capital.shinyapps.io/MyShiny/;
- https://salif.shinyapps.io/topic_context/
- Built a big data missing missing values and outliers detection tool, combined with a missing data imputation method, for time series data.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Machine Learning: Classification, Clustering, Natural Language Processing… Statistical Methods: Design of Experiments, Latent variables models such as: Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, Canonical Correlation Analysis, Structural Equation Modeling, Partial Least Squares Modeling. Econometrics: Time Series Analysis, Panel or Longitudinal Data Analysis, Quasi-Experiment Methods, Regression Methods such as: OLS, Logistic Regression, Quantile Regression… Software and Programming Languages:R programming, Python, SAS, SQL EDUCATION
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Harounan Kazianga
Prof. Harounan Kazianga is currently The Carson Priority Excellence Professor of Economics at Oklahoma State University. He is a development economist whose research focuses on rural economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa. He conducts extensive field research in West Africa on technological change in agriculture, the use of financial markets, asset accumulation and gift exchange to cope with risk, gender relations and the structure of household economies, property rights, access to education and a variety of other aspects of rural economic organization. He holds an undergraduate degree and a Master degree from the University of Ouagadougou and a PhD from Purdue University. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University and Columbia University.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Patrice Sanou
STRUCTURES DE FORMATION
- CEG Bobo-Dioulasso
- Lycée Municipal Bobo-Dioulasso
- Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo de Ouagadougou
- CIRAD/Montpellier/France
- South Dakota State University/Etats Unis
ETUDES / DIPLÔMES
Baccalauréat Série D (Mathématiques et Sciences de la nature)
Licence en analyse rurale
Bachelor (Maîtrise) en cultures irriguées
Master of Science en télédétection aérospatiale et système
d’information géographique
Doctorat (PhD) en technologies spatiales et gestion des ressources naturelles
Spécialisé en géoscience, écologie et géographie
Expert en changements climatiques
Chercheur CIRAD (Centre Coopération internationale en Recherche
Agronomique pour le Développement)/Montpellier
INSTITUTIONS COURANTES D’ACTIVITÉ
SERVIR WEST AFRICA/NASA Point Focal Burkina UNION AFRICAINE: Africa Science and Technologies Advisory Group for Disaster Risk Reduction (AfSTAG/DRR) Global Monitoring of Environment and Security / Africa GROUP on EARTH OBSERVATION (GEO) IINSTITUT SUPERIEUR D’ETUDES SPATIALES ET TELECOMMUNBICATIONS (ISESTEL) UNIVERSITE JOSEPH KI-ZERBO INSTITUT PEDAGOGIQUE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT EN AFIQUE DE L’OUEST ET DU SAHAL
FONCTIONS
2019-2020
Professeur Emérite Technologies spatiales
Expert Af-STAG/DRR (Union Africaine)
Principal GEO (Group on Earth Observation)
Directeur Général ISESTEL
Coordonnateur GMES & Africa (Union Africaine) au Burkina
Coordonnateur SERVIR-WA/NASA (USAID) Burkina
Co-chair Land Degradation Neutrality/UNCCD
Chair Réseau des Universités Francophones d’Enseignement de Technologies Spatiales (Union Africaine)
Expert International de l’OMVS (Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du fleuve Sénégal)
Enseignant géomatique IPD/AOS
Enseignant géomatique Département Géographie de l’Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo (GEOCFID)
Enseignant géomatique ISESTEL
Expert Technique PAAEDC/ Convention Maires Sud Sahara
Expert FAO/FFEM Dégradation des terres Burkina
2010-2018
Membre Conseil d’Administration Université Saint Thomas d’Aquin
Fondateur ISESTEL
2003-2009
Secrétaire Permanent AfricaGIS2007
Membre du Conseil d’Administration SIE-Afrique
1990-2003
Consultant indépendant en technologies spatiales
Directeur Technique GEOCONSEIL
Chef de service informatique et SIG de l’Institut Géographique du Burkina (IGB)
Chef de service scientifique et technique Station de Recherche de Kamboinsé (INERA)
Chercheur Institut de l’Environnement et Recherches Agricoles (CNRST/INERA)
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Edouard Wemy
Dr. Wemy received his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics at Ohio Dominican University, and his Ph.D. in Economics in 2015 from Emory University.
Dr. Wemy’s research interests are in macroeconomics and time series with applications in business cycles and total factor productivity and the emphasis on the importance of technological progress embodied in capital equipment. He teaches macroeconomics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Brice Zoungrana is a geospatial expert with extensive academic and professional experience. He holds degrees in Macroeconomics, Geomatics, Geography (GIS), and a PhD in Geography from Oklahoma State University, specializing in Nature-Society Dynamics. As Director of Geospatial Technologies at ArborPro, Inc., he leverages advanced geospatial tools for environmental and agricultural projects. Certified in UAS, Google Project Management, and Drilling Basics, he is also an active mentor and community leader within BSN.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Brice Zoungrana is a geospatial expert with extensive academic and professional experience. He holds degrees in Macroeconomics, Geomatics, Geography (GIS), and a PhD in Geography from Oklahoma State University, specializing in Nature-Society Dynamics. As Director of Geospatial Technologies at ArborPro, Inc., he leverages advanced geospatial tools for environmental and agricultural projects. Certified in UAS, Google Project Management, and Drilling Basics, he is also an active mentor and community leader within BSN.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Brice Zoungrana is a geospatial expert with extensive academic and professional experience. He holds degrees in Macroeconomics, Geomatics, Geography (GIS), and a PhD in Geography from Oklahoma State University, specializing in Nature-Society Dynamics. As Director of Geospatial Technologies at ArborPro, Inc., he leverages advanced geospatial tools for environmental and agricultural projects. Certified in UAS, Google Project Management, and Drilling Basics, he is also an active mentor and community leader within BSN.
Current Residence:
San Antonio, TXNationality:
BurkinabeDr. Brice Zoungrana is a geospatial expert with extensive academic and professional experience. He holds degrees in Macroeconomics, Geomatics, Geography (GIS), and a PhD in Geography from Oklahoma State University, specializing in Nature-Society Dynamics. As Director of Geospatial Technologies at ArborPro, Inc., he leverages advanced geospatial tools for environmental and agricultural projects. Certified in UAS, Google Project Management, and Drilling Basics, he is also an active mentor and community leader within BSN.
Together, the BSN Board works tirelessly to build a vibrant and supportive network for Burkinabe students worldwide.
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