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AI for humanitarian response and resilient supply chains
I’m J J Faddoul, a data scientist and AI consultant in Singapore. I work on using AI to anticipate crises, from disease outbreaks and natural disasters to supply chain disruption.
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- redTropical cyclone · India1 Nov
- greenEarthquake · Vanuatu1 Nov
- greenWildfire · Botswana1 Nov
- greenWildfire · Botswana1 Nov
Current disaster alerts from GDACS, updated daily.
3research projects with humanitarian partners
48countries in a risk-monitoring network I built
6countries I’ve taught in
2×top of class (Manchester, NUS)
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Research interests
Humanitarian supply chains
How supply chains recover after conflict and disaster.
Early warning and forecasting
Predicting outbreaks, disasters and disruptions early enough to act.
AI for humanitarian decisions
Using machine learning and LLMs to support humanitarian decisions.
Supply chain resilience
Applying humanitarian early-warning methods to business supply chains.
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Recent writing
Building a digital should-costing lab: how we uncovered $1 million in manufacturing savings
Simulating a supplier’s factory in R to check what a product should really cost, and what that did for procurement negotiations.
Introducing supply chain analysis to post-conflict agricultural systems: a preliminary framework from Lebanon
A summary of my Manchester MSc dissertation: what stops farm supply chains recovering after war, and a framework for humanitarian actors trying to rebuild them.
Covid-19 and logistics: reacting to new possibilities in the world of international shipping
Cheap fuel and a collapse in demand sent container ships the long way round Africa. What that means for inventory and customer service.
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Consulting
I run IMCI, an AI consultancy that works with Fortune 500 companies and global NGOs.
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