Manichanh Satdichanh, PhD

Quantitative Data Scientist

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Hawaii at Manoa

About me

I an ecologist and data scientist with extensive experience and expertise in quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Highly skilled in leading and collaborating with diverse teams and stakeholders, I am passionate about using data-driven decision making to enhance conservation efforts, sustainability and livelihoods, as well as organizational efficiency and improve predictive capabilities for future strategic planning

Technical Skills:

R, SQL, QGIS, beginner Python

Data Science Skills:

Bayesian statistics | Machine learning | Spatial analysis | Remote Sensing | Business descriptive & inferential statistics | Hypothesis testing | Advance statistical modeling | Cluster analysis | ANOVA & ANCOVA | Regression | Network analysis | Factor analysis | Data mining | Data wrangling | Data visualization

Data Science Blogs

Ecology and Data Science

Business and Data Science

Big Data Analytics with R and SQL

Machine Learning with R

Data Science and Decision Marking

Education

Certificate | Business Statistics | Cornell University | 2020

Ph.D | Botany | Plant Community Ecology | Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS | 2019

M.S | Ecology | Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS | 2015

B.S | Forestry | National University of Laos | 2008

Work Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher | University of Hawaiʻi | 2023 - present

• Focusing on exploring various types of meta-analysis approaches with coding in R
• Developing statistical models, data processing and extraction, and data analysis and publishing scientific papers

Affiliate Graduate Faculty | University of Hawaiʻi | 2022 - present

Responsibilities: Supervise graduate students

Postdoctoral Researcher | ICRAF East & Central Asia | Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS | 2021 - 2023

Responsibilities: Developing data analysis protocol | Data management | Data analysis | Writing and publishing scientific papers | International collaborations

Lecturer | National University of Laos | 2019 - 2020

Team leader | World Agroforestry Centre | Laos - China - Thailand | 2014 – 2016

Responsibilities: Leading Biophysical surveys | Data management | Developing database | Developing data analysis protocols | Plant identification

Assistant to country director | Triangle Generation Humanitaire - Laos | 2012 – 2013

Responsibilities: Logistics | Co-supervise the team | Irrigation site survey | Working with the local community

Database developer | Institude Rcherche pour le Developpement au Laos & National University of Laos | 2010 – 2011.

Biodiversity specialist

1. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry - Laos

   May - July 2011

2. Japan Volunteer Research Centre - Laos

   Jan - Aug 2011

3. Earth Systems Laos	Sept 2010 – March 2011
   Responsibilities: Leading biodiversity & socio-economic surveys	Data management	Data analysis	Writing report

Visiting scholar:

1. University of Copenhagen, Denmark

   Sept 2009 – Jan 2010

2. Leiden University, Netherlands

   Jan 2009

Projects

ISland Leaf Ecophysiological Trait Synthesis

Developing an open-access global Island plant functional trait database

Hawai‘i EPSCoR Project, Functional Trait Analysis

Developing Hawaiian plant functional traits database and characterizing how plant functional traits vary with environmental conditions under climate change

Publications

1. Cooper, D. et.al. (2024). Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities. Nature 20–24. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06820-z
2. Satdichanh, M. et.al. (2023). Drivers of soil organic carbon stock during tropical forest succession. Journal of Ecology, April, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.141413
3. Muscarella, R. et.al. (2020). The global abundance of tree palms. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(9), 1495–1514. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/geb.13123
4. Satdichanh, M.,(2019). Phylogenetic diversity correlated with above‐ground biomass production during forest succession: Evidence from tropical forests in Southeast Asia. Journal of Ecology, 107(3), 1419–1432. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13112
5. Satdichanh, M. et.al. (2018) Using Plant Functional Traits and Phylogenies to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Assembly in a Seasonal Tropical Forest in Lao PDR. Zang R, editor. http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0130151
6. Slik, JWF. Et.al. (2015) An estimate of the number of tropical tree species. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2015; 112: 7472– 7477. doi:10.1073/pnas.1423147112.
7. Satdichanh M, Millet J, Heinimann A, Nanthavong K, Harrison RD. Tree distribution in Phou Khao Khoauy National Park, Laos. 2015;44. doi:10.16473/j.cnki.xblykx1972.20