Lecture: Dr. Haodong Qi | Modeling Climate-Induced Migration with Big Data and Explainable Machine Learning

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The 2025 edition of the BRISPO lecture series: Dr. Haodong Qi, Malmö University | Modeling Climate-Induced Migration with Big Data and Explainable Machine Learning

Haodong Qi obtained his Ph.D. from Lund University in 2016. He is an economic demographer well-versed in statistics, machine learning, and data science for social research. Currently, Haodong is the principal investigator of the CLIMB project which leverages Big Data and machine learning to better understand and predict Climate-Induced Migration in Africa and Beyond. Since 2023, CLIMB has received generous financial support from the partners of the Belmont Forum: Swedish Research Council, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye, Austrian Science Fund, and US National Science Foundation.

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