CV of Felix Andrews

Location: Beijing, China || Canberra, Australia

Date of birth: 1981

Email: felix@nfrac.org

• 2006-: independently developed free software packages for the R Project for Statistical Computing
• latticist, an exploratory visualisation application;
• playwith, a graphical user interface for interative plots;
• ihacres, an implementation of the IHACRES rainfall runoff model (not yet released);
• hydrosanity, tools for sanity-checking and processing of rainfall and streamflow data.
• contributions to Deepayan Sarkar's latticeExtra, utilities for designing Trellis Graphics displays.
• 2003-: worked for Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre
• maintaining and coding IHACRES, a rainfall-runoff model (~25,000 lines of Java).
• developing IHACRES-tambo, a simple interface for exploring the IHACRES model with case studies. This was used in the ANU course MATH3134.
• developing a batch model run and sensitivity tool for ICMS, called Sensus.
• coding a custom interface for CatchMODS, a water quality decision support system.
• developing web-based collaboration support for the STARS network proposal.
• building a website for the Top-Down modelling Working Group of IAHS/PUB.
• implementing an intranet for iCAM, including user-editable pages (a Wiki information system) and a groupware calendar. I also generate a map of the intranet.
• 2003: worked for CSIRO Land & Water
• programming the Murray Flow Assessment Tool to support The Living Murray initiative.
• documenting processes for developing extensions to ICMS.
• 2000/2001: worked for the Beaten Track Group doing server-side scripting.
• mid-late 1990s: many minor websites and games under the name Digitalsquid.

• Andrews, F. (2007). Hydrosanity: a Starting Point for Hydrological Analysis. In Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D. (eds) MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, pp. 1540-1546. ISBN: 978-0-9758400-4-7. http://mssanz.org.au/MODSIM07/papers/24_s17/Hydrosanity-aStarting_s17_Andrews_.pdf
• Andrews, F. (2005). Representing Uncertainty in Ranking by Single or Multiple Indicators. In Zerger, A. and Argent, R.M. (eds) MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2005, pp. 2456-2462. ISBN: 0-9758400-2-9.
  http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim05/papers/andrews.pdf
• Andrews, F. (2005). Quantitative methods for hydroecological assessment of unregulated rivers. Honours Thesis, Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre (iCAM), The Australian National University. 106 pp.

as co-author

• Norton, J.P. and F.T. Andrews (2006). Sensitivity and structure assessment of a software tool to gauge the ecological impact of flow scenarios. Journal of Hydrology 325(1-4): 325-339, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.10.035.
• Croke, B.F.W, F. Andrews, A.J. Jakeman, S. Cuddy and A. Luddy (2005). Redesign of the IHACRES rainfall-runoff model. 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, 21-23 February 2005, Canberra.
• Norton, J.P., L.T.H. Newham and F.T. Andrews (2004) Sensitivity analysis of a network-based, catchment-scale water-quality model. International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs) Conference, Pahl-Wostl, C., Schmidt, S. and Jakeman, A.J. (Eds), University of Osnabruck, Germany, 14-17 June 2004, Vol. 2, pp. 1039-1044.
• Norton, J.P. and F.T. Andrews (2004) Sensitivity Assessment Techniques for the Murray Flow Assessment Tool. Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre (iCAM), The Australian National University. iCAM Client Report 2004/8, 150 pp.

• 2007: MODSIM 2007 (Christchurch)
• 2006: Monash Bayesian Reasoning Workshop (Melbourne)
• 2005: MODSIM 2005 (Melbourne)
• 2005: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium (Canberra)
• 2004: Rivers Research Network meeting (Wollongong)
• 2004: CRCCH Catchment Modelling School (Melbourne)
• 2004: iEMSs 2004 (Osnabrück, Germany)
• 2003: MODSIM 2003 (Townsville)
• 2003: MDBC: The Living Murray Science Workshop (Canberra)
• 1996: Firmware: MediaTools '96 (Sydney)

Bachelor of Science (Hons) with majors in Environmental Modelling and Computational Modelling at the Australian National University.

ANU Graduate Certificate: Topics in Machine Learning.

Honours year

50% thesis: "Quantitative methods for hydroecological assessment of unregulated rivers".

50% coursework:

Result: H1 (first class)

Undergraduate

Note: HD = High Distinction, D = Distinction, C = Credit, P = Pass, F = Fail.

I studied years 11 & 12 at Lake Ginninderra College.