Karthik Ram

[1] Ram's work focuses on global change, data science, and open research software.

After his PhD, he went on to hold a post-grad position at University of California, Santa Cruz[3] before eventually moving to UC Berkeley.

rOpenSci is non-profit with the goal of making data retrieval more accessible through open source R packages.

[6] Ram is the lead principal investigator for the URSSI (US Research Software Sustainability Institute).

[8] Ram is a founding editor of the Journal of Open Source Software,[9][10] and an editorial board member of ReScience C[11] and Research Ideas and Outcomes,[12] which are both academic journals focused on open research sustainability.