Karthik Ram is a research scientist at UC Berkeley's Institute for Data Science and Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology. His research is interdisciplinary and covers areas such as understanding impacts of climate change on ecological communities, reproducible research, sustainable scientific software, and open science. He is the co-founder and director of The rOpenSci Project and lead at URSSI. Additionally, he is a founder and editor at the Journal of Open Source Software and founding editor for The rOpenSci Software Review.
Karthik Ram has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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Episode 218: Karthik Ram & James Howison on Research Software Visibility Infrastructure Priorities
February 2nd, 2024 | 41 mins 24 secs
Karthik & James share 8 vital tips for long-term open-source support, covering software recognition, web analytics, and easy researcher software linking.
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Episode 187: Karthik Ram on Research Software Sustainability
June 23rd, 2023 | 41 mins 38 secs
Karthik dives into his involvement with URSSI, focusing on software development best practices while highlighting the challenges of scientific software sustainability.