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Christopher Pillay

Data Scientist

Education
MSc, Computer Science, University of the Witswatersrand , 2023
Education
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, University of the Witswatersrand , 2020
Education
BSc, Computer Science and Economics, University of the Witswatersrand , 2019
Institutes
UNU Centre UNU-WIDER

Christopher Wayne Pillay is a Data Scientist at UNU-WIDER and is currently working on the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme in Pretoria, South Africa.

Christopher previously worked for UNU-WIDER as a Data Consultant and supported the SA-TIED programme.

He is currently completing his Masters in Computer Science and his focus areas are deep learning and computer vision, although he does enjoy working on different types of projects that involves artificial intelligence and big data.

Research Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Data science

  • Development Economics