Edith Khaembah
Senior Scientist at NZ Insititute of Plant & Food Research
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolEdith Khaembah is a Senior Scientist based in New Zealand with 11 years’ experience delivering field experimentation, modelling and statistical analysis focused on economically and environmentally sustainable farming systems. She holds a PhD from Massey University and combines hands-on use of R and SAS with crop‑model development—contributing back-end documentation and model enhancements to the APSIMNextGen (ApsimX) open-source initiative. Her recent work emphasizes land‑use change and diversification strategies to build climate-resilient agriculture while reducing environmental and economic costs. Known for translating complex model components into clear documentation and usable tools, she brings both research rigour and practical implementation experience to multidisciplinary teams.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Massey University, New Zealand
swahili, luhya
Github Skills (5)
csharp10
dotnet-core10
documentation9
refactoring8
refactor8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
APSIMInitiative/ApsimX
May 2015 - Nov 2020
ApsimX is the next generation of APSIM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:235 commits, 32 PRs, 13 comments in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Edith contributed to the APSIMX repository by working on model documentation, including implementing classes and functions to document PMF models and their attributes. The user's work involved modifications to existing code files, such as UserInterface/Classes/PMFDocumentation.cs, with a focus on describing model parameters. The user added new weather files and made changes to growth duration variables, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the model's functionality and providing documentation. This work involved interacting with and modifying codebase related to plant organs.
next-generation
PlantandFoodResearch/ApsimX
Jun 2015 - Mar 2025
ApsimX is the next generation of APSIM
Contributions:399 pushes, 57 branches, 1 tag in 9 years 11 months
next-generation
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