William Yankho Nkhono

William Yankho Nkhono

  • PhD Fellow

William Yankho Nkhono is a PhD fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) and a PhD research fellow under the Innovative Monitoring in Paediatrics in Low-resource settings: an Aid to save lives (IMPALA study). He has enrolled as a PhD student in big data and machine learning with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Department of Computer Sciences. His work is mainly focused on developing algorithms to predict critical illness in Malawian children using social demographic, continuous vital signs

monitoring and biomarkers and applying machine learning to detect, train, and test predictive algorithms. He holds an MSc in Informatics from the University of Malawi and a BSc (honours) in Business Information technology from the University of Greenwich.