R developer / data visualization programmer
Summary
I am currently a 3rd year PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide. I am working on assessing the impact of climate change on water systems through various hydrological processes, including evapotranspiration and precipitation. I have developed a high level of programming skills during my postgraduate research, which is largely focused on R and Fortran languages.
I have developed an open-sourced R package to implement multiple evapotranspirtion models (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Evapotranspiration/index.html), which have been widely used across the global for applications such as multi-model comparisons and model uncertainty assessments.
I have also developed great interest and substantial skills in building interactive R-shiny-based applications for teaching and research communication purposes. A sample of my work can be seen at: https://ddaisy.shinyapps.io/App-1/ , which is an interactive tool to test the sensitivity of evapotranspiration to changing climate.
In addition, I have rich experiences utilizing R language for a range of hydrology-related applications including rainfall-runoff modelling, sensitivity analysis, uncertainly analysis, statistical analysis and optimization.
Education
completed 2012
The University of Adelaide
Bachelor of Civil and Environmental Engineering with first class Honours
Leader of the group of honours research on the modeling of disinfection levels in water distribution system
GPA: 6 out of 7
Experience
March 2013 – present
THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE, Adelaide SA, AUSTRALIA
PhD Candidate – climate change impact on hydrological processes
Reviewing literature and coming up with research ideas, running R-based simulations, writing and reviewing report and journal papers, delivering presentations in international conferences, meetings with supervisors, school seminars and group discussions
Dec 2012 – Present
THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE, Adelaide SA, AUSTRALIA
Tutor/marker
Helping students with problems from the design projects of Engineering Hydrology, and providing feedback of design project submissions
Oct 2013 – Jan 2015
The BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY, Adelaide SA, AUSTRALIA
Contract Hydrologist
GIS mapping, hydrological modelling and data validation/processing
Skills
- R (Advanced)
- Fortran (Intermediate)
- SQL (Intermediate)
- MS Office (Advanced),
- MS Project (Advanced)
- Adobe Photoshop (Advanced)
- ArcGIS (Advanced)
- Civil engineering modeling package including Vensim, EPANET, MUSIC, Urban Developer, RORB and QuickDraw
Specialties
- Data visualization, R Programming, scientific writing, self-motivation, sensitivity analysis
Spoken Languages
- English -- very effectively, Mandarin Chinese