Neal Hughes
Senior Economist at Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolNeal Hughes is a Senior Economist and data scientist with two decades of analytical and leadership experience across Australian government agencies, currently leading development of ABARES' farmpredict model and a Drought Early Warning System in collaboration with CSIRO. He combines deep quantitative skills—machine learning, statistics and economic modelling—with production-grade programming in Python, Julia and R to turn research into operational tools. A Sir Roland Wilson PhD scholar (ANU) and recipient of the 2021 ANU Ian Castles Alumni Prize, Neal is equally comfortable presenting to policymakers or publishing technical research. Based in Geelong, he brings a rare blend of agricultural economics domain expertise and hands-on software engineering that accelerates data-driven decision making for climate and farm resilience.
11 years of coding experience
Phd, Economics, Phd, Economics at Australian National UniversityBachelor of Commerce (First Class Honours economics), Bachelor of Commerce (First Class Honours economics) at The University of Melbourne
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
machine-learning6
memoryview6
cluster-analysis6
python6
julia6
economics6
cython6
scikit-learn6
Github contributions (5)
nealbob/nealbob.github.io
Apr 2015 - Apr 2026
Contributions:222 pushes in 11 years 2 months
nealbob/pivotal-py
Dec 2025 - Jun 2026
Contributions:161 pushes, 18 branches in 6 months
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