Gaurav Singhal

Co-founder of a social-enterprise using swarm-intelligence, machine-learning, and blockchain to create completely decentralized credit systems, allowing individuals to assess risk, receive loans, and earn interest on savings without banks or other financial intermediaries. We are striving to create a future with not only 100% financial inclusion, but also minimal barriers to capital, empowering individuals to take their future in their own hands and seeding sustainable cycles of opportunity.

I led a team that transformed how WFP gathered, measured, and disseminated information on the food security of nations during times of war, climate shocks, and other extreme events. We devised ways to provide near real-time information on food prices, food security, and scarcity of essentials using a combination of mobile-based surveys, call-detail records, satellite imagery, and crowd-sourcing. It was and continues to be an immense challenge, comprising original research in social statistics, applied research in a multitude of mathematical modeling domains (econometrics, simulation, machine learning, etc), and building practical tools and infrastructure aimed at empowering individuals in the field.

I researched and modeled vaccine and essential medicine supply chains for rural public health clinics under a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I delivered two projects. The first, an impact evaluation study on mobile-phone-based inventory systems, required field data collection in the tribal areas of Arunachal Pradesh, India. The second project comprised a model and recommendation system for minimizing stockout at public health clinics in Tanzania via trans-shipment of essential medicines between neighboring clinics.