Patricia Cadena
Consultant at International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
Soacha, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolPatricia Cadena is a process-based crop modeler and consultant with eight years of experience applying and extending biophysical models for smallholder agriculture in developing countries. She holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from the University of Florida and has driven cassava and intercropping model development across CIAT, IITA and US research groups, including significant Fortran contributions to the widely used DSSAT Cropping System Model. Her work spans field data collection, database management, and model coding—most recently adding cassava-specific features and fixing soil water and growth calculations in DSSAT—bridging hands-on programming with agronomic insight. Having worked and volunteered in diverse international settings from Colombia to Kenya, she combines technical rigor with community engagement and mentoring experience.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Crop physiology, Master’s Degree Crop physiology at Universidad Nacional de ColombiaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Agricultural and Biological Engineering at University of Florida
Github Skills (1)
fortran10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DSSAT/dssat-csm-os
Nov 2019 - Apr 2022
DSSAT Cropping System Model
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 commits, 23 PRs, 10 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Patricia primarily contributed to the DSSAT Cropping System Model by modifying and enhancing the existing Fortran code. Their work focused on adding and correcting features related to cassava, a specific crop within the model. The commits indicate bug fixes and improvements in calculating soil water and plant growth parameters. The user also addressed simulation failures and integrated changes across different CROPSIM models.
crop-simulation-modelscrop-modelagriculture-researchdssatcropping
AgWISE-EiA/potentialyield
Nov 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:67 PRs, 55 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
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