Dr. Benjamin F. E. Lange

Examination and improvement of Supply Chain reports. Development and automation of novel Business Intelligence reports. Deep-dives to determine and extinguish substantial data analysis challenges. Close collaboration with merchant account managers and program road-map development. Detection of Supply Chain failures and quick response proposals to limit financial losses. Collaboration with data warehousing teams to resolve data quality difficulties. Cooperation with external carriers.

Management of employees and external consultants to develop business intelligence software and statistical models. Training and mentoring of team members. Creation and implementation of statistical models to optimize online and offline media spendings of advertisers from several industrial sectors including the automotive, telecommunication, health, FMCG, banking & e-commerce industry. Improvement of Data Automation processes and assistance in the execution of successful IT security audits.

Assistance in the translation of business challenges into pragmatic analytical solutions. Integration, visualization and exploration of data to generate knowledge and value for clients. Implementation of forecasting algorithms for demand/supply planning and use of statistical methods to analyze CRM data. Use of Agile development methodologies (Scrum, XP).

Combination of experimental and analytical approaches to disentangle epidemiological principles of causes and effects in a model system. The project included data collection, building of datasets, data cleaning, data visualization and the use of confirmatory data analysis tests. Further, predictive statistical models were developed to gain novel insights into the spread of diseases.

Statistical skills: Teaching analysis of experimental datasets using the statistical software package R. Expert in computational modelling and experimental design: Invited guest lecturer for statistical modelling in Biology Master level classes (Prof. Dr. E. Decaestecker).

Scholarship-based year abroad

Funded by the government agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (www.iwt.be).