• Source: Karthik Ram

Karthik Ram is a research scientist at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and member of the Initiative for Global Change Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for being the co-founder of rOpenSci. Ram's work focuses on global change, data science, and open research software.




Career


Ram received his PhD in Ecology and Evolution at University of California, Davis. After his PhD, he went on to hold a post-grad position at University of California, Santa Cruz before eventually moving to UC Berkeley. Currently, Karthik Ram is a research scientist at UC University of California, Berkeley for both the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and the Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology. His work aims to make it easier for scientists to produce reproducible research.




Projects


Ram co-created rOpenSci in 2011, and is currently the lead of the project. rOpenSci is non-profit with the goal of making data retrieval more accessible through open source R packages. He also a member of the peer-review and editorial staff for the rOpenSci Software Review. Ram is the lead principal investigator for the URSSI (US Research Software Sustainability Institute). Karthik Ram has been the lead of this project since its initial grant in December, 2017. Ram is a founding editor of the Journal of Open Source Software, and an editorial board member of ReScience C and Research Ideas and Outcomes, which are both academic journals focused on open research sustainability.




Awards


Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science (2007)
rOpenSci awarded $2.9M grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust




Notable works


Among Ram's notable work are the following:

Point of view: How open science helps researchers succeed
Git can facilitate greater reproducibility and increased transparency in science
Data carpentry: workshops to increase data literacy for researchers




References

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• Karthik Calling Karthik
• Rama Shinta
• Ram Kapoor
• Orange (film 2010)
• Deepika Padukone
• Swaragini
• Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai
• Ali Baba (seri televisi India)
• Filmografi Deepika Padukone
• Dookudu
• Karthik Ram
• Karthik Calling Karthik
• Bruce Lee: The Fighter
• Gully Rowdy
• Karthik Jayaram
• Ram Kapoor
• Ram Charan
• Journal of Open Source Software
• Karthik (actor)
• Siya Ke Ram