Lightning Talk Speakers
Kevin Silverstein
Speaker Bio:
Kevin is Scientific Lead for the Research Informatics (RI) group at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI). He has spent decades performing large-scale bioinformatics analyses involving cutting-edge high-throughput data from bacteria, fungi, plants, mammals and complex communities. He has performed detailed investigations of plant-microbe systems in continued research since 2001. Additionally, in 2010-2012, he led an effort to identify mutations in clinical patients with Fairview Hospital which has been expanded in partnership with MSI and continues to be used today. The knowledge gained from handling protected patient data has been brought over to GEMS to protect farmer and corporate data.
Cody Hennesy
Speaker Bio:
Cody Hennesy is the Computational Research Librarian at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where he coordinates the Software Carpentry workshop program and helps researchers access, clean, and analyze large-scale scholarly collections.
Jay Dickson
Speaker Bio:
Jay Dickson is the director of the Polar Geospatial Center. He has spent his career as a planetary scientist and remote sensing specialist, working on several NASA missions, while also conducting field work for a decade in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Most recently he ran the Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization at Caltech before joining the University of Minnesota. He received his bachelor's from Hampshire College and a Masters from the University of Southern California.
David Van Riper
Speaker Bio:
David Van Riper is a geographer with more than 20 years of experience with census and geographic data. He's been with IPUMS since 2001 and now serves as director of spatial analysis.