Petra Kuhnert
Associate Science Director - University Engagement
Queensland, Australia
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolPetra Kuhnert is an Associate Science Director and statistician with eight years in senior research and leadership roles at CSIRO's Data61, specialising in data-driven AI for environmental and agricultural challenges. She combines rigorous statistical modelling and machine learning with clear visualisation—authoring the Vizumap R package and VizumApp to communicate uncertainty in pollutant loads for the Great Barrier Reef. Petra has a DPhil in Statistics and a track record of developing emulators to speed complex environmental models, bridging domain science and practical AI solutions. A passionate R programmer and co-founder of Canberra and Darwin R-Ladies, she actively mentors and amplifies women in data science while making advanced methods accessible to decision-makers.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
DPhil, Statistics, DPhil, Statistics at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) (Honours), Statistics, First Class, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) (Honours), Statistics, First Class at Queensland University of Technology
Github Skills (18)
r-package10
uncertainty10
spatial-data9
spatial9
development-environment5
ide5
rstudio4
editor3
missing-data3
hierarchical3
preprocessing3
data-management2
visualization2
data-analysis2
data-visualization2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pkuhnert/LRE
Jan 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
pkuhnert/diet
Sep 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:55 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.