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Hire Stefan Strydom

USD 80 per hour

South Africa

Data Scientist, Machine Learning Expert and Consulting Actuary with 8+ years experience in healthcare

Summary

I’m the co-founder of Mast Analytics, a healthcare focused data science and analytics startup. The mission of our company is to use data science, machine learning and analytics to improve public health. We define public health broadly to include social determinants of health such as education and environmental health.

I have a degree in mathematical statistics and am currently completing my M.Sc. in Computer Science with a dissertation focused on multi-label clinical text classification for long documents in a high-dimensional, imbalanced label space. I’m also a qualified healthcare actuary which has equipped me with the skills to do complex and long-term financial modelling. I have completed graduate-level courses from edX Columbia University, also known as ColumbiaX, in artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics.

I have over 8 years’ experience working on machine learning and advanced analytics projects. My most recent projects include training an unsupervised machine learning algorithm to do population segmentation based on clinical datapoints collected through an ecosystem of connected wearable devices and point-of-care pathology machines. We are also building up a suite of medicine machine learning models, including models to detect signs of disease from x-ray images and classifying electrocardiogram data.

My friend, colleague and co-founder of Mast Analytics has a different academic and professional background to me and brings clinical and public health expertise as well as academic rigor to all our work. She is a qualified pharmacist and holds a Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins. During her career, she’s fulfilled numerous roles in both clinical and data analytics teams.

Prior to forming Mast Analytics, we worked together for several years at a large third-party administrator and managed care organization in South Africa. We collaborated on a range of projects, including developing predictive models, profiling providers, designing alternative reimbursement systems, measuring quality of care and doing financial and clinical outcomes analyses. Along with a former colleague of ours, we were awarded the 2014 Starfield Award by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s ACG System® team for our work in identifying emerging risk individuals through machine learning using administrative health data, designing an intervention plan for the identified individuals and measuring clinical and financial outcomes of the program.

Subject Matter Expertise

Services

Data Science Data visualization, Algorithm writing, Analytical report, Analysis from dataset, Machine learning, Quantitative analysis, Other

Statistical review Verify statistical analysis, Conduct simple analysis, Conduct complex analyses, Recommend suitable tests

Writing Journal article, Scientific report, Conference poster, Conference proceeding

Clinical Research Consulting Perform statistical analysis

Work Experience

Co-founder and Director

Mast Analytics

July 2019 - Present
Advanced Specialist: Hospital Analytics

Medscheme

October 2017 - May 2018
Statistical Analyst

Medscheme

February 2011 - September 2017

Education

M.Sc. (Department of Computer Science)

Stellenbosch University

February 2019 - Present
Graduate Certificate: Robotics

ColumbiaX

September 2017 - December 2017
Graduate Certificate: Machine Learning

ColumbiaX

May 2017 - August 2017
Graduate Certificate: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

ColumbiaX

January 2017 - April 2017
B.Com. (Hons) (Mathematical Statistics)

Stellenbosch University

February 2009 - June 2010
B.Sc. (Mathematical Statistics)

Stellenbosch University

February 2006 - June 2009

Publications

CONFERENCE_ABSTRACT

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Data Scientist, Machine Learning Expert and Consulting Actuary with 8+ years experience in healthcare

Co-founder and Director

Mast Analytics

Advanced Specialist: Hospital Analytics

Medscheme

Statistical Analyst

Medscheme

M.Sc. (Department of Computer Science)

Stellenbosch University

Graduate Certificate: Robotics

ColumbiaX

Graduate Certificate: Machine Learning

ColumbiaX

Graduate Certificate: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

ColumbiaX

B.Com. (Hons) (Mathematical Statistics)

Stellenbosch University

B.Sc. (Mathematical Statistics)

Stellenbosch University