Hi there! My name is William Agyapong

I am a PhD (Data Science) student at the University of Texas at El Paso and a self-taught web developer.
My goal is to help create software tools to advance the practice and profession of Data Science.

Portfolio

Here are some of my personal and collaborative projects!

R Software Package: ECCFICM

Tweet Analytics

Predicting Mortality by Heart Failure

Modeling Food & Housing Insecurity at UTEP

COVID-19 Dashboard

Electronic Voting App

Advanced Regression

Church Information System

Inventory App for Construction Firms

Insurance System

Fun time with games

Education

Master's degree in Statistics at Miami University


2019 - 2021

PhD in Data Science at The University of Texas at El Paso


2021 - 2025

Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology


2014 - 2018

Work Experience

PhD Teaching Assistant at the University of Texas at El Paso

Department of Mathematical Science


2021 - Present

Graduate Teaching Assistant at Miami University

Department of Statistics


2019 - 2021

Teaching and Research Assistant at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science


2018 - 2019

Insurance Underwriter Intern at Vanguard Assurenace, Ghana


June 2017 - August 2017

Insurance Reinsurance and Claims Officer at Star Asurrance, Ghana


June 2016 - August 2016

Extracurricular Activities

CODE-S Foundation: A non-profit organization aimed at making computer programming, software development, and data science freely accessible to Ghanaians

Co-founder, Administrator, and Training Instructor


July 2018 - Present

Head of the Actuarial Science Trade and Technology Team at KNUST

July 2016 - August 2017


Led a group of students to develop a miniature Insurance System to get the general public acclimatized to how insurance operates with the aim of promoting the insurance industry in Ghana.

Member and a Software Developer, Actuarial Science Trade and Technology Team at KNUST

2015 - March 2018


Developed with others an online questions bank and testing service for students at KNUST.