Karthik Ram

I’m a research scientist at UC Berkeley’s Institute for Data Science and Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology. My research is interdisciplinary and covers areas such as understanding impacts of climate change on ecological communities, reproducible research, sustainable scientific software, and open science. I am the co-founder and director of The rOpenSci Project and lead at URSSI. I'm a founder and editor at the Journal of Open Source Software and founding editor for The rOpenSci Software Review. I also serve on the editorial boards of ReScience and Research Ideas and Outcomes. I advise organizations like the Research Software Alliance, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Essential Open Source Software for Science Program and The Software Sustainability Institute. I graduated with a PhD in Ecology and Evolution from UC Davis and have since held postdoc positions at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley.

Speaker bio

Karthik’s interests are focused on reproducible research, especially as it applies to global change biology. Much of his recent work focuses on building tools and services around open data and growing diverse data science communities. He contributes regularly to various open source projects, edits for Journal of Open Source Software, ReScience and The rOpenSci Software Review, and has served on boards of organizations such as The Carpentries, Research Software Alliance, The Software Sustainability Institute, and Many Labs. He is a senior scientist at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and the director of The rOpenSci Project, a non-profit initiative founded in 2011 to make scientific data retrieval reproducible through an ecosystem of open source tools, annual unconferences, and community developed software. Karthik graduated with a PhD in Ecology and Evolution from UC Davis and has since held postdoc positions at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley.