Hello, my name is Frankie Cho.
I use climate, economic and geospatial data to build tools for decision support.
I am currently a final-year PhD student in Environmental Economics at the University of Exeter & University of Queensland joint PhD program. I received my bachelors and masters degrees in Geography from the University of Hong Kong.
Skills: R, Python, Julia, GIS, and front-end development (ReactJS/ VueJS/ NextJS).
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Risk modelling and decision-making for UK tree planting


Stack: R/ Matlab/ CPLEX/ SQL
Presented at the EAERE Annual Conference 2022
Flexible koala conservation decisions

Stack: Julia/ R/ Gurobi
Monte Carlo experiment of spatially-explicit land-use decisions


Presented at the BIOECON conference 2023.
Remote sensing of post-typhoon effects

Winning entry of ESRI China Young Scholars Award 2019 (second runner-up)
Stack: ArcGIS/ Google Earth Engine/ Stata
Analytic Hierarchy Process for Survey Data


Created an R package on CRAN with 35K+ and cited by several peer-reviewed articles.
Front-end developer for a blockchain-based C2C online trading platform as the first product of a startup. Developed a fully-featured responsive web app with real-time posting, chat, notification and Stripe payment functionalities.
Stack: VueJS/ ReactJS/ REST APIs/ HTML/ CSS
Visit website: tectechain.com
CovidAlert

Front-end development of a React Native application that assimilated open Hong Kong government data during the Covid pandemic.
Stack: React Native/ REST APIs