Belko Abdoul Aziz Diallo, Eng., PhD. (male) is a GIS and Big Data scientist. He holds the position of Senior Data Manager at the Competence center of WASCAL (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). He completed his PhD research program on mobile Geospatial Business Intelligence at University of Laval (Québec, Canada).
After the completion of his PhD, he has been serving as founder and CEO of a consultancy IT company, autonomous researcher, and visiting professor in several universities where he taught Geomatics, Data Mining, Internet Protocols, Web and Databases integration, Multi-layered Architectures, etc. Dr. Diallo has cumulated more than ten years of experience in conducting IT, teaching, and research and development activities in Burkina Faso and Canada. He joined WASCAL to head the data management and ICT unit. His fields of interest are related to Data Acquisition and Metadata Management, Data Transformation Storage and Quality Management, IT Architecture and Data Center Management, Data Warehousing and Decision support Management, Data/knowledge Visualization and Dissemination, Data Policy and security Management, etc.
Dr. Diallo is involved in the publications of several international peer-reviewed journals and conference talks. He is member of DAMA-I, the Data Management Association International, a Global Data Management Community.