Xiumei Yang
Cropping Systems Modeller at The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolXiumei Yang is a Cropping Systems Modeller based in Lincoln, New Zealand, with eight years’ experience combining field agronomy and computational crop modelling to predict development, yield and quality for perennial and annual systems. She holds a PhD in perennial crop modelling from Lincoln University and applies that research-led perspective to translate physiological responses into robust simulation models. Xiumei has practical horticultural and engineering experience from industry work in China, giving her uncommon hands-on insight into irrigation, fertilization and post-harvest quality that informs model parameterisation. As a back-end contributor to the APSIMNext-generation (ApsimX) codebase, she refines C# model implementations to improve event handling and data processing across an influential open-source crop modelling platform. Her work emphasizes systems-level hypothesis testing and identifying future research directions, bridging academia, code and on-the-ground practice. Colleagues value her for turning complex biological processes into actionable, testable simulation tools.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Grassland science, Master's degree, Grassland science at Sichuan Agricultural UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Perennial crop modelling, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Perennial crop modelling at Lincoln University (NZ)
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
c-library10
csharp10
dotnet-library10
c-libraries10
dotnet-core10
event-handling9
data-processing9
computer-engineering8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
APSIMInitiative/ApsimX
Jun 2017 - Sep 2021
ApsimX is the next generation of APSIM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:185 commits, 32 PRs, 5 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Xiumei's contributions focused on modifying and refining the APSIMX codebase. The commits involved changes to various C# files related to event handling, data processing, and model functionality. These updates suggest a back-end development role focused on improving existing features and addressing specific implementation details within the APSIMX project.
next-generation
Xiumei2017/LucerneModelling
Jul 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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