Curriculum Vitae

Olita, T., Sung, B., Sharma, A., Cao, Z., Mapulanga-Hulston, J., Gibberd, M. (2025). Fungicide Resistance Management in West Australia's Wheatbelt. Scientific Data, 12(1), 502. DOI:10.1038/s41597-025-04840-0

Cao, Z., Brown, J., Gibberd, M., Easton, J., Rakshit, S. (2024). Optimal design for on-farm strip trials—systematic or randomised? Field Crops Research, 318, 109594. DOI:10.1016/j.fcr.2024.109594

Olita, T., Cao, Z., Gibberd, M. (2024). Economic analysis of crop protection strategies: Comparing the value of increased fungicide inputs and crop genetic improvement in managing Ascochyta Blight in Australian Chickpeas. Pest Management Science. DOI:10.1002/ps.8319

Stefanova, K.T., Brown, J., Grose, A., Cao, Z., Chen, K., Gibberd, M., Rakshit, S. (2023). Statistical analysis of comparative experiments based on large strip on-farm trials. Field Crops Research, 297, 108945. DOI:10.1016/j.fcr.2023.108945

Olitaa, H. T., Sunga, B., Hoopera, B., Cao, Z., Lopez-Ruiza, F., Gibberda, M. (2023). The socio-economic impact of fungicide resistance in West Australia's Wheatbelt. Advances in Agronomy, 180, 1. DOI:10.1016/bs.agron.2023.03.005

Phong, W. N., Sung, B., Cao, Z., Gibberd, M., Dykes, G. A., Payne, A. D., Coorey, R. (2022). Impact of different processing techniques on the key volatile profile, sensory, and consumer acceptance of black truffle (Tuber melanosporum Vittadini). Journal of Food Science, 00, 1–14. DOI:10.1111/1750-3841.16275

Cao, Z., Stefanova, K., Gibberd, M., Rakshit, S. (2022). Bayesian inference of spatially correlated random parameters for on-farm experiment. Field Crops Research, 281, 108477. DOI:10.1016/j.fcr.2022.108477

Cao, Z., Bryant, D., Molteno, T. C., Fox, C., Parry, M. (2021). V-spline: An adaptive smoothing spline for trajectory reconstruction. Sensors, 21(9), 3215. DOI:10.3390/s21093215

Rakshit, S., Baddeley, A., Stefanova, K., Reeves, K., Chen, K., Cao, Z., Evans, F., Gibberd, M. (2020). Novel approach to the analysis of spatially-varying treatment effects in on-farm experiments. Field Crops Research, 255, 107783. DOI:10.1016/j.fcr.2020.107783

Shankar, M., et al. (2020). Targeting improved partial resistance using yield-loss response curves for foliar diseases of wheat. GRDC Updates.

Cao, Z., Bryant, D., Parry, M. (2018). Adaptive Sequential MCMC for Combined State and Parameter Estimation. arXiv preprint:1803.07734.

Cao, Z., Bryant, D., Parry, M. (2018). V-Splines and Bayes Estimate. arXiv preprint:1803.07645.