William Yankho Nkhono is a data manager pursuing a PhD in data science. He is a PhD Research Fellow under IMPALA and has enrolled for a PhD in big data and machine learning with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Department of Computer Sciences. His work is mainly focused on developing an algorithm to predict critical illness in Malawian children using vital signs monitoring and applying machine learning to detect, train, and test a predictive algorithm. He holds an MSc in informatics from the University of Malawi and a BSc (honors) in Information technology from the University of Greenwich.