Chau Fung
Senior Economist at Environment Agency
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChau Fung is a Senior Economist with a PhD in transport economics and over a decade of experience applying rigorous economic analysis across academia, government, and consultancy. Her work spans transport pricing and infrastructure investment research, teaching urban analytics and programming at master's level, and practical regulation-focused analysis for UK REACH and heat networks. She combines academic publication record and postdoctoral experience with hands-on policy delivery at the Health and Safety Executive, Ofgem, RPA and now the Environment Agency. An active contributor to spatial analysis tooling, she has implemented advanced diagnostics and bandwidth-selection improvements for geographically weighted regression in the widely used PySAL library, highlighting a rare mix of econometric theory and reproducible technical implementation.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Economics at KU LeuvenThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
English, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
numpy10
python10
scipy9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pysal/pysal
Sep 2014 - May 2016
PySAL: Python Spatial Analysis Library Meta-Package
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:10 commits, 1 issue in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Chau's commits primarily involve modifications and additions to the `pysal/contrib/gwr` module, specifically focusing on bandwidth selection methods and diagnostic functions within geographically weighted regression (GWR) models. The changes include implementing new diagnostic metrics (AICc, AIC, BIC, CV, R2, adjusted R2) and addressing potential issues with the Golden section search bandwidth selection. They have also included code for calculating geographically weighted statistics, demonstrating an understanding of spatial statistical methods and their implementation.
pysalpythonspatial-analysis
qszhao/Research-code-repository
Oct 2013 - Jul 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes in 5 years 9 months
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