Project Teams
Click the icon below to read more about the individuals from each project team who are participating in the pilot cohort of the Birdaro training program.
ArviZ
ASAR
AsyncAPI
CIB Mango Tree
CKAN
Community Software Facility
COSMIIC
Dataverse Project
KBase
FIMS
icepyx
Kokkos
MNE-Python
movement
Open Source with SLU
OpenMRS
OpenRefine
Open Wellness
Reclone
RSpace
scikit-learn
SoilDRaH
The R Project
USGS Data model catalog
ArviZ
ArviZ provides tools for exploratory analysis of Bayesian models, from prior elicitation to posterior visualization, model criticism or inference diagnostics.
Oriol Abril Pla
Principal Data Scientist and Core Contributor
Oriol Abril Pla is a computational statistician who currently works as a consultant with PyMC Labs, and as open source maintainer for PyMC and ArviZ. He started contributing to OSS in 2019, becoming a maintainer not long after that. His main areas of interest are data visualization, model and inference diagnostics, model comparison, and prior elicitation. Within open source projects, he has also dedicated a large part of his work to documentation, governance and DEI.
Tomás Capretto
Adjunct Professor
Tomás is a Principal Data Scientist at PyMC Labs where he uses Bayesian statistics to solve real-world problems, and Adjunct Professor at Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina where he teaches Bayesian Statistics and Programming. He is a core developer of ArviZ, Bambi, and PyMC.
ASAR
The goal of ASAR is to automate stock assessment reports for NOAA science centers so they are reproducible and cohesive across the agency.
Samantha Schiano
Workflows Project Lead and Co-Developer
Samantha Schiano is a contractor with ECS Federal in support of NOAA Fisheries. She graduated with her BS in Marine Biology in 2019 and MS focusing on quantitative fisheries in 2022. She has worked on a variety of projects, but, most recently, she has co-developed two R packages, asar and stockplotr, aimed at improving and streamlining stock assessment workflows across the country by semi-automating accessible, stock assessment reports.
Sophie Breitbart
Software Developer
Dr. Sophie Breitbart is a contractor with ECS Federal in support of NOAA Fisheries. To create a more cohesive and reproducible national approach to stock assessment reporting, she develops R packages that produce reports with consistent formatting, semi-automated figures and tables, and accessibility features. Dr. Breitbart completed her PhD in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from the University of Toronto and a BA in Biology from Wesleyan University.
AsyncAPI
We are building an open source specification for event driven architecture and tooling for asynchronous APIs
V. Thulisile Sibanda
Senior Community Manager
I am an open-source fanatic, a community builder, a technical writer, and a Python programmer. My passion for open-source has led me to become a leader and expand my skills. With a blend of technical and communication expertise, I love creating sustainable solutions for communities.
Aishat (Maya) Muibudeen
Design Manager and Community Manager
Aishat Muibudeen is a community builder with over 3 years of experience in fostering inclusive and collaborative spaces. She currently volunteers as the Design Community Manager at AsyncAPI, where she supports engagement and collaboration across the open-source ecosystem. She is also the founder of OpenNest-Africa, a community co-founded with three other women to create resources and opportunities for everyone to begin their journey in open source.
CIB Mango Tree
(Participating in PBK25Birdaro only)
We are building free and open source software programs that allow non-technical researchers to investigate large social media datasets for signs of inauthentic behavior and manipulation.
Benjamin Sando
Project Manager
Ben is a project manager at the CIB Mango Tree, where he uses his background in social media manipulation research to help develop tools that detect online bots. In his day job, he is a researcher at the Global Taiwan Institute policy think tank in Washington, D.C. Fluent in Mandarin and Korean, Ben has studied state-sponsored social media manipulation campaigns spanning Taiwan, South Korea, and the United States.
Helen Glover
Engagement Lead
Helen is an interdisciplinary designer exploring the systemic and social dimensions of technology, from the stability of emerging systems to how digital growth creates communities. Her work centers on open-source communities, civic technology, and the policy frameworks that support them. She works at Lewis-Burke Associates on emerging technologies and also serves as Engagement Lead for CIB Mango Tree, a Fellow with the Internet Law and Policy Foundry, and an organizer with Civic Tech DC.
Cameron Peltz
Data Scientist
I have been working as a data scientist in federal executive agencies for the past 5 years, and have found volunteering projects an excellent opportunity to apply skills I don’t always get to use at work. The CIB Mango Tree project, focused on building tools to detect coordinated inauthentic behavior (like bot networks and troll farms spreading disinformation on social media), has been great for using my background in natural language processing.
CKAN
CKAN is the world’s leading open source data management system.
Robert Gradeck
Principal Investigator on POSE CKAN, Project Manager
Robert Gradeck co-founded and manages the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center (WPRDC) at the University of Pittsburgh. The WPRDC is an inclusive civic open data partnership between the University, Allegheny County, and the City of Pittsburgh, and uses CKAN as it’s data portal software. As Co-PI for the CKAN Pathways to Enabling Open Source Ecosystems project, he is helping to create new structures for community participation in the CKAN open-source ecosystem.
Joel Natividad
Co-CEO of datHere; Contributor to the CKAN project; Entrepreneurial Lead for CKAN POSE Project
Joel Natividad is a long-time open data practitioner, thought leader, & co-founder of datHere, where he helps govts & orgs co-create open-source data infrastructure to make data useful, usable & used. A long-time advocate for civic tech, he is a core contributor to CKAN, the world’s leading open data platform, and the maintainer of qsv, a powerful open-source data-wrangling toolkit. Joel is also invested in the FAIR data ecosystem, digital public infrastructure & open source communities.
Community Software Facility at NCAR
The Community Software Facility (CSF) is a Center-level initiative to modernize how we develop, support, and sustain NSF NCAR’s community models and tools to meet the current and future needs of staff and the broader scientific community.
Sheri Voelz
Section Manager and CSF Discovery Lead
Sheri Voelz is a senior research software engineer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. She has over 25 years of experience as a research software engineer working on Earth Science models. Sheri currently leads a group of software engineers and she is also the Discovery Lead for the Community Software Facility at NCAR, which is an initiative to modernize how they develop, support, and sustains its community models and tools.
Michael Waxmonsky
Software Engineer III
Michael has been a software engineer for over 10 years, currently with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He has a wide array of experiences primarily HPC with a focus on software sustainability and performance. He is a member of the SIMA program working on an interoperable physics ecosystem for the Earth System Modelling community and is currently working on the TURBO project which aims to provide a revamped infrastructure and to accelerate ocean modeling with MOM6 and CESM.
Domi Colgrove
Strategic Initiative Projects Lead
Domi is a Project Manager who has been working in research and research support for more than a decade. As part of her role at NSF NCAR, Domi has been supporting an open-source team constructing a unified community atmospheric modeling system and is involved in the formation of NSF NCAR’s Community Software Facility, an initiative to modernize how the center’s community models are developed, supported, and sustained.
Kyle Shores
Software Engineer
Kyle has a background in both computer science and atmospheric scones. He currently works at NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research on open source software to make it easy to model and experiment with atmospheric chemistry. He is the lead software engineer for the MUSICA project and is interested in how he can empower his team and his community to build stable, easy to use, useful software.
COSMIIC – open source implantable devices
COSMIIC has released the world’s first fully open source active implantable medical device, solving a key barrier in the field of neurotechnology: the lack of accessible, customizable tools for prototyping and proof of concept of human-ready therapies.
Chris Rexroth
Engineer & Director of Open Source
Chris Rexroth is a biomedical engineer who looks forward to a world where intellectual property interests do not interfere with medical advancements. He currently works with an implantable device that is being studied under clinical trial in people with spinal cord injury. With COSMIIC, he is preparing the open source documentation of that device and growing a community of users so that new human therapies can be developed using the device as a platform.
Dan Romano
Biomedical Engineer
Dan Romano oversees supply chain management for the COSMIIC system, coordinating the logistics that keep grant-funded research projects on track. He ensures critical components are procured, delivered, and ready for use, supporting researchers from initial planning through surgery. With a background in mechanical engineering and expertise in CAD and SolidWorks, he also contributes to system design and technical problem-solving through Open NeuroTech.
Mike Fu
Associate Professor and Principal Investigator
Michael Fu leads teams of engineers and clinicians to develop video games and electrical stimulation for improving movement or cognitive function in people after neurological injury. This includes stroke, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, and spinal cord injury. He is part of a team in Cleveland that is releasing open-source neurostimulation devices.
Dataverse Project
The Dataverse Project is an open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data.
Philipp Conzett
Senior Research Librarian
Philipp Conzett is a Senior Research Librarian at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He is the head of DataverseNO, a national research data repository and of the Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing). Philipp currently servers as the chair of the Global Dataverse Community Consortium (GDCC) Steering Committee and is part of the Steering Committee of the Norwegian node of the European Research Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technology (CLARIN).
Ceilyn Boyd
Interim Managing Director and Development Project Manager
Ceilyn Boyd is the Interim Managing Director for the Dataverse Project and Dataverse Development Project Manager at Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS). In these roles, Boyd manages operations and staff for the Dataverse Project and oversees the software development process to ensure the team meets its project, partnership, and grant responsibilities.
James Myers
Senior Developer and Architect
Dr. Myers is a software architect, designer, and developer, currently focusing on the open source Dataverse project. He received his B.A. in Physics from Cornell University (1985) and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley (1993). He has more than three decades of experience in the development and deployment of scientific Cyberinfrastructure and has participated in the planning and execution of multiple large projects for the US NSF, ONR, and DOE.
Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase)
KBase is an open source data analysis platform for biological sciences data that supports the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) data principles.
Elisha Wood-Charlson
User Engagement Lead
Elisha Wood-Charlson is KBase’s User Engagement Lead, and has a PhD in marine microbial ecology. When she left the research bench, she wandered into the world scientific community engagement, and joined the KBase team with the goal of leveraging KBase to 1) build trust in open science, 2) remove barriers to publication, and 3) democratize scientific discovery by helping the community utilize KBase as an open access, freely accessible resource for data analysis.
Valerie Skye
Data Systems Engineer
Valerie is involved with numerous projects at Berkeley Lab, primarily focused on data integration and Agentic AI applications. They are committed to institutional and cross-organizational knowledge transfer to support the US Department of Energy Biological & Environmental Research program (BER) mission and to amplify the impact of our collective resources to the research community.
Fisheries Integrated Modeling System
The Fisheries Integrated Modeling System is a population dynamics model used to inform the management of marine resources.
Kelli Johnson
Project Lead
Kelli Johnson is a fisheries biologist specializing in simulation testing of ecological models, specifically population dynamics models used to inform sustainable fisheries management. As the Project Lead of the Fisheries Integrated Modeling System, Kelli hopes to bring robust software tools to scientists so they have more time to focus on novel ecosystem research. Kelli also contributes to several other open-source projects on GitHub, promoting collaborative scientific research.
Andrea Havron
Fishery Biologist, Lead Developer and Statistical Expert
Dr. Andrea Havron is a statistical ecologist interested in improving fishery stock assessment methods and tools. She currently works for NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Science and Technology in the National Stock Assessment Program, where she leads research and development of statistical tools and methods to inform good practices in the fisheries stock assessment enterprise. She is currently a lead developer for the Fisheries Integrated Modeling System, a collaborative open science project.
Kathryn Doering
Fisheries Biologist and Implementation Team Member
Kathryn received a B.S. in Marine Science and Biology from University of Miami and an M.S. in Marine, Estuarine, and Environmental Sciences from University of Maryland. Kathryn joined the NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology in 2022, where she leads the NOAA Fisheries Integrated Toolbox and supports the National Stock Assessment Program on software projects, including the Fisheries Integrated Modeling System. She is also involved in efforts to advance Open Science at NOAA Fisheries.
icepyx
icepyx aims to simplify the process of querying, obtaining, reading, analyzing, and manipulating NASA’s ICESat-2 data to enable scientific discovery.
Jessica Scheick
Maintainer, Developer, and Community Manager
Jessica is a glaciologist, open science advocate, and open-source software developer/maintainer. She enjoys working in the boundary space between researchers and software engineers to build collaborations and improve access and use of large datasets in research workflows. Her current focus is on the icepyx and earthaccess Python libraries and their use in ICESat-2 data workflows.
Amy Steiker
Tool and Service Manager
Amy Steiker is the Tool and Service Manager for the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), as part of the Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado. Amy specializes in the usability and accessibility of NASA remote sensing data, working to foster the growth and sustainment of related open source software communities including icepyx and earthaccess.
Rachel Wegener
Software Developer
Rachel is an oceanographer and a cloud engineer interested in developing software tools to enable earth sciences. She is currently working on developing capabilities in the icepyx Python project to more efficiently read data from the commercial cloud. Areas of particular interest for Rachel include cloud native file formats and computer science education for earth science researchers.
Zachary (Zach) Fair
Assistant Research Scientist and Contributor
Zachary (Zach) Fair is an assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland, in contract to NASA GSFC. His core research interests are in lidar remote sensing, snow hydrology, and open-source software development. Relevant to this program, he has been a contributor to icepyx for 4 years, has attended multiple hackweeks for ICESat-2 and SnowEx, and is leading a team developing standardized tutorials for the snow science community.
Kokkos
Portable performance on heterogeneous computing systems.
Damien Lebrun-Grandie
Senior Computational Scientist
Damien Lebrun-Grandié is a Senior Computational Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research focuses on developing algorithms for solving large-scale engineering and scientific problems. He also co-leads the Kokkos C++ project, providing performance portability to hundreds of applications. He represents ORNL on the C++ Standards Committee, where he contributed features such as std::mdspan and std::linalg. He is one of the founding members of the High Performance Software Foundation.
MNE-Python
(Participating in PBK25Birdaro only)
Analysis and visualization of human neuroimaging data.
Daniel McCloy
Research Scientist 4; Steering Council Chair; PI
Dan is a developer of open-source scientific software, and a scientist trained in acoustic phonetics, speech perception, and auditory neuroscience. He is Chair of the Steering Council for MNE-Python (software for human neuroscience analysis and visualization), and a frequent contributor to other scientific Python projects. His interest broadly centers on the perception and representation of speech sounds.
movement
movement aims to facilitate the study of animal behaviour by providing a Python toolbox for analysing body movements across space and time.
Niko Sirmpilatze
Senior Research Software Engineer and Tech Lead
Nikoloz (Niko) Sirmpilatze is a London-based neuroscientist and Senior Research Software Engineer at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (UCL). He builds open-source tools for studying brains and the behaviours they produce, and leads “movement”—a Python package for analysing animal motion. As a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow, he is promoting the adoption of open-source tools for animal behaviour via workshops for early-career researchers.
Open Source with SLU
Open Source with SLU is the open source program office of Saint Louis University, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Daniel Shown
Program Director
Daniel E. Shown, Program Director for Open Source with SLU, brings 20+ years of software development and infrastructure experience across industry and academia. A servant leader and enthusiastic technologist skilled at creative problem solving, he has expanded its experiential learning program developing open source ecosystems like Rerum. His expertise spans DevOps, distributed systems, and empowering collaborative teams.
Sri Tammiraja Karthikeya Sai Santosh Iragavarapu
Staff Developer
Santosh Iragavarapu is a Computer Science graduate with experience in full-stack development using JavaScript, Python, and Git. He delivers value in development through collaboration and design, breaking down complex challenges into prototypes and practical solutions. He is committed to continuous learning with interests in Java and machine learning.
Devayani Chakravarthi Konakalla
Tech Lead
Devayani Chakravarthi is pursuing her Master’s in Computer Science at Saint Louis University, MO, USA. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and has expertise in programming, front-end development, and digital technologies. With experience in projects spanning web development and renewable energy systems, she is passionate about applying her technical skills to innovative solutions while continuing to grow academically and professionally.
Openmrs
OpenMRS is currently the world’s leading open source Electronic Medical Records platform, sustained by a global community.
Beryl Kanali
Community Coordinator
Beryl is an Open Source enthusiast with a passion for innovation and using technology to solve real world problems. She currently leads the community at OpenMRS working together to build and maintain the world’s leading Electronic Medical Records System. She has a degree in Mathematics and Computer Scientist. Outside work she loves reading, working out and playing basketball.
Jayasanka Weerasinghe
Product Quality Engineering Lead
Jayasanka Weerasinghe is an open-source community leader and Product Quality Engineering Lead at OpenMRS. Since 2020, he has supported the community as a developer, mentor, and Google Summer of Code administrator. He is committed to growing open-source ecosystems through mentorship, governance, and sustainable collaboration.
Veronica Muthee
QA TPM
Veronica is a Public Health Specialist based in Kenya, holding a Master of Public Health degree with specialization in Health Systems Strengthening. Veronica is presently employed with OpenMRS Inc, contributing to requirements gathering and quality assurance activities for OpenMRS open source health information systems.
Openrefine
OpenRefine is an open-source desktop application for data cleanup and transformation to other formats, an activity commonly known as data wrangling.
Esther Jackson
Advisory Committee Member
Esther Jackson is Head of Open Scholarship at Columbia University Libraries, where she leads initiatives to expand public access to scholarly information. Esther serves as a committee member of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Regional Fund for North America, on DataCite’s Services and Technologies Steering Group, as the North American Editorial Policy Advisory Group Member for the DOAJ, and on OpenRefine’s Advisory Committee.
Rory Sawyer
Developer and Community Engagement Specialist
With over a decade of experience in software and data engineering, Rory has spent his career making data more accessible for people across various technical backgrounds. His journey includes significant contributions to the Open edX and dbt stack, where he developed his skills in collaborative development and communication within open-source projects. Rory’s expertise spans backend development and infrastructure work, including managing deployment processes.
Julie Faure-Lacroix
Manager of Partnerships and International Relations
Julie Faure-Lacroix is the Manager of Partnerships and International Relations at Calcul Québec. Despite her academic background in biology and forest sciences, she quickly adapted to HPC research and became the scientific liaison agent for Calcul Québec. In 2024, she moved on to focus on international relations. At Université Laval, she leads the Passerelle Forêt-Climat project, which is a geospatial data platform aimed at gathering, analysing, and sharing forest science data.
Openwellness
For a little over a decade, we’ve built custom apps to be used in over 15 NIH and AHA funded behavioral clinical trials.
Angela Pfammatter
Associate Professor and Site Investigator
Dr. Pfammatter is the Senior Methodologist for the College of Education, Health, and Human Science, and Associate Professor of Public Health at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research is focused on using mHealth tools and optimization research methodology to develop behavioral interventions for the purpose of preventing chronic disease.
JC Subida
Senior Software Engineer
J.C. Subida is a Senior Software Developer at Northwestern since 2016, leading the software development for multiple grant-funded studies. Skilled in Swift, Python, JavaScript, Docker, Celery, MongoDB, and Couchbase, he’s built secure APIs, iOS apps, and microservices. Prior to research, he gained valuable experience from the startup world and holds a CS degree from UIUC. Active in AFIRE, Filipino School of Chicago, and US-RSE, he’s dedicated to tech innovation and community growth.
Hardik Shrestha
Software Engineer
Hardik Shrestha is a software engineer at Northwestern University. He specializes in Android and full-stack development, building and maintaining research applications, improving backend systems, and ensuring smooth operations across multiple ongoing studies.
Reagent Collaboration NeTWork (Reclone)
Reclone has a vision where all biologists have equitable access to the reagents and tools they need to discover, build, and innovate with biology.
Yan Kay Ho
Project Manager and Community Manager
Yan Kay is the Project Manager for the Open Bioeconomy Lab at the University of Cambridge, and the Community Manager for the Reagent Collaboration Network (Reclone). Her MSci was in Natural Sciences at University College London, and she continued there for her PhD in Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology. She has worked in industry at Nuclera Nucleics and at Cambridge Consultants, and is involved in a range of open science communities including CSCCE, OLS, iGEM, SBOL, and GOSH.
Cibele Zolnier Sousa do Nascimento
Community Manager
Cibele Zolnier Sousa do Nascimento holds a degree in Biochemical Engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is a Community Manager at the Reagent Collaboration Network (Reclone), supporting global efforts to expand equitable access to biotechnology tools. She is also the Co-founder and Executive Director of the Brazilian Association of Synthetic Biology (SynBioBR), where she leads initiatives to connect and empower the synthetic biology community across Brazil and Latin America.
Mariángeles (Mage) Ávila Maniero
Leader, Mendoza Node
Mariángeles Ávila Maniero is a biochemist with a PhD from the National University of Cuyo, where she is professor and researcher at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology. Her work focuses on biotechnology, especially nanobody production and recombinant proteins for diagnostics and research. She has held international research stays, is part of the ReClone network, and teaches in Molecular Diagnosis and Clinical Research.
RSpace
RSpace solves the critical problem of fragmented research data management by providing an open-source platform that enables FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data workflows across the entire research lifecycle, from planning to publication.
Tilo Mathes
Product Manager and Open Source Lead
Tilo Mathes (PhD) is a product and community person with background in science. Starting as a researcher in biophysics, he moved into product management and community relations, leading cross-functional teams building digital solutions for research. He is passionate about sustainability and building innovative, community-driven solutions.
Rory Macneil
CEO
Founder and CEO of Research Space, which maintains and sells services around RSpace. RSpace is research data management platform that integrates electronic lab notebook capabilities with inventory management, research tools, and research infrastructure. RSpace is designed for researchers to document, manage, and share their research data, organize experiments, track data provenance, collaborate in real time, and ensure compliance with institutional and funder data policies.
scikit-learn
The goal of scikit-learn is to make accurate predictive analysis and machine learning as easy as possible.
Virgil Chan
Contributor Experience Team Member
Virgil Chan is a consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area, helping organisations with data science and machine learning projects across research and industry. He is a contributor to the open-source library scikit-learn.
Stefanie Senger
Open Source Software Engineer
Stefanie is an open-source developer and new maintainer of scikit-learn, contributing also to related libraries. She trained and taught at LeWagon (2022–2023), interned with scikit-learn (2023), and worked at muffintech before joining probabl’s open-source team in 2024. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Potsdam (2021) and was active on Wikipedia as a writer and mentor (2011–2014).
Reshama Shaikh
Community Team, Communications
Reshama Shaikh is a community manager and a trained statistician. She has more than 14 years experience as a biostatistician and over 10 years experience as a community manager. She holds a Masters in Statistics and an MBA with a focus on business analytics, strategy and marketing. She founded Data Umbrella in 2019, a community to expand the participation of open source users and contributors in the data science space.
Soil DRaH
Soil Data Rescue and Harmonization (SoilDRaH) seeks to make soil data from previous research and collection campaigns more accessible for reanalysis.
Katherine (Kathe) Todd-Brown
Assistant Professor
Dr. Todd-Brown is a computational biogeochemist who uses simulates to study how soils breath and links up data to support those simulations. In 2017, she made the rash statement that linking data across sources what ‘easy’ and been working on data rescue and harmonization ever since. Over the years the focus of her work has shifted from coding table joins to coordinating people. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida in the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences.
Brandon Whitehead
PhD Student
Brandon is a Senior Researcher at BSI in Aotearoa New Zealand and a PhD student at University of Florida. His current work involves building vocabularies for data interoperability as well as richer semantic models intending to reflect aspects of domain knowledge. He is passionate about capturing and applying rich Earth and Environmental domain models for machine aided reasoning and discovery, and feels oddly compelled to increase the utility, and usage, of the SWEET ontology.
Teri Balser
Professor
Professor Teri Balser is a passionate scholar and experienced university leader. She has received numerous awards and recognition for her work in soil and environmental science – including recognition as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair to India in 2015, and US Professor of the Year in 2010. Throughout her career she has sought to connect and empower people across public, academic, and private sectors in working together toward a sustainable future.
The R Project
R is a language and open-source environment that supports the full data science pipeline from data management, through state-of-the-art statistical and visualization methods.
Heather Turner
RSE Fellow / Associate Professor
Heather Turner is an EPSRC Research Software Engineering Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. In her fellowship, she is working on initiatives to improve sustainability and equality, diversity and inclusion in the R project. Heather is on the board of the R Foundation and chairs both the R Contribution Working Group and the Forwards taskforce for underrepresented groups in the R community.
Michael Lawrence
Board Member
Michael is a member of R Core and a board member on both the R Foundation and R Consortium. He has made numerous open-source contributions, including to many of the core packages in the Bioconductor project. Michael enjoys mentoring junior developers, such as through the Google Summer of Code, and his research interests include scalable computing, data visualization and genomics.
Gabriel Becker
Independent Consultant
Gabe is an independent consultant and researcher. He proposed and collaborated closely with R-core members on the ALTREP framework recently added to R’ – one of the largest conceptual changes to R’s internals ever. Previously, Gabe was a Scientist at Genentech Research, where he researched generalized reproducibility in multi-analyst settings. Recently, he created ‘rtables’, which is currently used in production by two of the top five largest companies in the pharmaceutical industry.”
USGS Model Catalog / Data Cataloginator
Our team is working to provide several Open-Source Data and Catalog applications from the USGS.
Leslie Hsu
Physical Scientist / Product Owner
Leslie Hsu is a member of the USGS Science Data Management Branch. Part of her current role is to coordinate teams that develop open source software, including those from the USGS Community for Data Integration seed projects and the USGS Model Catalog. Her various roles have shaped her interests in geomorphology, active tectonics, sediment experiment data, geoinformatics, virtual communities of practice, and team science.
Grace Donovan
Product Owner
Grace Donovan is a member of the USGS Science Data Management Branch. Her work focuses on promoting data management best practices and supporting efforts to improve how scientific data is shared and used. While working full time, she is also pursuing a Master’s in Data Science. Outside of work and school, Grace enjoys staying active through Pilates, skiing, and hiking.
Madison Langseth
Product Owner
Madison is a science data manager at the U.S. Geological Survey. She develops tools and workflows to make the USGS data release process more efficient for researchers and data managers. She also promotes data management best practices through the USGS’s Community for Data Integration Data Management Working Group and the USGS Data Manager Forum.
