Wim Delva
Founder And Managing Director at South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolWim Delva is a founder and managing director with a decade of experience applying epidemiology, applied mathematics and decision science to health and healthcare organisations across the Western Cape and beyond. He combines academic leadership—as an associate professor at Stellenbosch University and former professor at Ghent University—with hands-on research at the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, translating complex models into actionable policy and operational tools. Since founding Wimmy in 2017 he has bridged non-profit, academic and private sectors, building practical data-driven solutions for public health challenges. His background as a medical doctor with a PhD in Medical Sciences gives him rare clinical-to-modeling fluency, and he has periodically led interdisciplinary institutes (e.g., School for Data Science & Computational Thinking) to scale analytical capacity. Notably, he has experience moving decision science out of the lab into real-world health programmes, blending rigorous methodology with pragmatic implementation.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Medical doctor, Medical doctor at Universiteit GentApplied mathematics and epidemiology, Applied mathematics and epidemiology at Stellenbosch UniversityPhD, Medical Sciences, PhD, Medical Sciences at Ghent UniversitySint-Barbara
Italian, Dutch, French, Spanish, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
netlogo6
r6
rjava6
r-package5
clock4
alarm4
continent4
data-science2
machine-learning2
deep-learning2
discrete-event-simulation1
simulation1
spatial1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wdelva/SimpactCyanExamples
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:36 commits, 28 pushes in 11 months
wdelva/RSimpactHelp
Jun 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 220 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 6 months
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