Adam Sparks
Professor - Biometry And Agricultural Data Analytics
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolAdam Sparks is a Professor of Biometry and Agricultural Data Analytics with two decades of international research experience across the US, Asia and Australia, now leading multidisciplinary teams to build decision-support tools for Australian farmers. He combines deep expertise in plant pathology, biometric modelling and GIS with practical experience developing disease forecasting systems and crop management tools from field trials to in silico models. His career spans academia, government research and international institutes (including IRRI), where he has translated complex crop and climate data into actionable recommendations and policy-relevant economic analyses. As an editor at rOpenSci and Tropical Plant Pathology, he is active in the reproducible-science and open-source communities, bridging statistical methods with applied agronomy. Notably, his work often pairs disease models with GIS and forecasting to anticipate climate-driven risks rather than only reacting to outbreaks. Based in Perth, he brings a rare mix of hands-on experimental fieldwork and advanced data analytics to sustainable agricultural decision-making.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Plant Pathology/Phytopathology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Plant Pathology/Phytopathology at Kansas State UniversityBachelor's Degree, Agronomy and Crop Science, Bachelor's Degree, Agronomy and Crop Science at Purdue University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
r610
meteorology10
knitr10
covariance10
quantitative10
reproducible-science10
quarto10
api10
stable10
keybase10
filter10
weather-api10
cran10
api-client10
earth-science10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
adamhsparks/SYT-SKEP.Rpackage
May 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:9 pushes in 6 years 7 months
retrieve-datapythonretrieve
adamhsparks/adamhsparks
Nov 2018 - Dec 2022
Code for my personal website
Contributions:443 commits, 10 PRs, 472 pushes in 4 years 1 month
reactnextjs
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