Charl van Schoor

AI and Big Data Specialist

City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

About

I'm interested in the bigger picture. How can companies, governments and individuals benefit from the advent of big data and artificial intelligence? How will countries adapt to changes in technologies? How can societies adapt to sustainable development for the coming technological revolution. Ultimately, I pursue ideas that can assist humanity’s sustainable living on this singular planet.

Experience

  • South African Reserve Bank (2 yrs 1 mo)
    • Senior Economist
      Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Research Fellow
      Jun 2024 - Mar 2025 · 10 mos

  • SARB Chair Doctoral Fellow at University of Pretoria
    Jan 2020 - Dec 2024 · 5 yrs

  • Data Scientist at Discovery Limited
    Feb 2019 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Worked on machine learning and advanced analytics within operational intelligence. Focused on improving the relationship that Discovery has with its members using machine learning techniques. Worked on productionizing ML models for real time operational use. Specializing in distributed Pyspark and Tensorflow algorithms. Also involved in developing in-house data science tools (data pipelines and quick to use ML models) Python, SQL, JS, Apache

  • Research Assistant at UNU-WIDER - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research
    Jul 2018 - Feb 2019 · 8 mos

    Tasked with updating the SARS/NT CIT-IRP5 panel database. Consists of updating and reconstructing legacy code in SQL, Stata and R, constructing new code to extract big data and to reduce the dimensions of the data into a usable format for modeling. Big Data wrangling Geocoding Recoding legacy code with OOP principles

  • Research Assistant at University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria
    Mar 2018 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr

    Using reserve bank communications with Natural Language Processing techniques with the aim of assesssing the quality of communications of different banks. Using clustering and NLP machine learning techniques.