Troy Wiipongwii
Director Of Innovation And Entrepreneurship In Conservation
Greater Richmond Region United States
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Top SchoolTroy Wiipongwii is a transdisciplinary scholar and innovation leader with 11 years of experience bridging data science, blockchain, and conservation entrepreneurship. As Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Conservation at the Institute for Integrative Conservation and affiliated faculty at William & Mary, he designs curriculum, research programs, and ventures that translate academic insight into real-world sustainable food system solutions. His background spans machine learning engineering, blockchain lab leadership, and founding ventures that explored distributed ledger applications for social impact and financial inclusion. Troy combines rigorous quantitative training (PhD data science, master’s in public policy statistics, and dual bachelor's in math/statistics) with hands-on product experience, uniquely positioning him to design mechanism-driven, equitable technology interventions. An under-the-radar strength is his work applying social choice theory and mechanism design to complex sociotechnical problems, like experimental governance and indigenous sovereignty initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Data Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Data Science at Capitol Technology UniversityBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Applied Mathematics at Southern New Hampshire UniversityUMBCMaster’s Degree Public Policy Analysis Statistics, Master’s Degree Public Policy Analysis Statistics at William & Mary
Hebrew, French, English, Hindi
Github Skills (2)
iterative4
reserve2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
troywiipongwii/Blockchain_AI
Nov 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:50 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
maxcollab/maxcollab.github.io
May 2019 - Feb 2020
A port of the Airspace theme by ThemeFisher to Jekyll.
Contributions:108 pushes in 8 months
airspacejekylljekyll-themethemefisher
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