Barcelona · Health, policy & applied AI

I build data systems that turn complex evidence into better decisions.

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Babaniyi “Babs” Olaniyi

Senior data scientist · Economist

I work across healthcare, public policy, and applied AI—building rigorous models and practical tools that help institutions act with greater confidence.

8+years across data science, economics, and machine learning
9M+insured people represented in healthcare analytics
€11M+annual pricing leakage protected through anomaly detection
13%gross-profit improvement supported by pricing models

Profile

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Economist by training.
Data scientist by practice.

My work sits where analytical rigor meets operational reality: late or imperfect data, high-stakes decisions, and teams that need evidence they can actually use.

At Causal Foundry, I build healthcare-financing and provider-performance systems from large-scale claims data. Previously, I developed pricing, forecasting, experimentation, and recommendation systems across industrial, retail, and digital-health settings.

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How I create value

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Frame the decision

Turn ambiguous policy or business questions into measurable outcomes, credible counterfactuals, and decision-relevant metrics.

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Build the evidence

Design reproducible data pipelines, statistical models, experiments, and monitoring systems that make uncertainty visible.

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Connect insight to action

Translate technical results into tools and recommendations that policy, product, and operational teams can use responsibly.

Experience

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Eight years building across sectors, with one consistent focus: useful evidence.

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2024—Now

Causal Foundry

Healthcare AI, claims analytics, health financing, and provider performance

2023—2024

ZF Group

Pricing optimization, elasticity, uplift modeling, and anomaly detection

2021—2023

Benshi AI

Digital health, forecasting, recommender systems, and experimentation

2017—2021

Research & analytics

Quantitative economics, political violence research, and business intelligence

Let’s work on something that matters

Complex problem?
Let’s make the evidence useful.