Umar Ahmed

B.Sc. Geography (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria)


Former student assistant

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Umar Ahmed was a student assistant in the Research Unit Off-Grid Systems at RLI from November 2020 to the end of January 2021. He was enrolled in the master's degree program Remote Sensing, Geo-information and Visualization at the University of Potsdam. His research interest included the impact of climate change in developing countries, applications of machine learning in remote sensing, and renewable energy.

He supported the team with the cataloguing of existing survey datasets, preparation of new enterprise survey, and statistical analysis and econometric modeling of the results of new quantitative surveys. Umar holds a bachelor's degree in Geography from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Apart from his work at RLI, he also contributed to football blogs.