Research Information Specialists

Specialists 

Our research information specialists are available for open office hours and consultations on research processes and tools. 


Claire Curry 

From: University Libraries 

Areas of expertise: 

  • Statistical programming and visualization in R
  • Open Science Framework (OSF)
  • Statistical programming in SAS
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in ArcGIS, QGIS, and R
  • Univariate and multivariate statistics
  • Structured Query Language (PostgreSQL and other variants)
  • Zotero

Availability: Thursdays, Fridays 1:00-3:00 pm or by appointment

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James Deaton 

From: Great Plains Network

Areas of expertise: 

  • Research networking
  • Kubernetes
  • Containers

Availability: email for available Thursday mornings

Email James 


Andrew Fagg

From: Computer Science and Data Institute for Societal Challenges

Areas of expertise: 

  • Machine learning and associated statistical methods for data analysis and addressing research questions
  • Python
  • Conventional ML: Scikit-learn
  • Deep Learning: Tensorflow and Keras
  • Using OSCER for large-scale ML experiments

Availability: by appointment 

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Mark Laufersweiler

From: University Libraries

Areas of expertise: 

  • Research Data Management (RDM)
  • Data Management Plans (DMP)
  • Python, R, Shell scripting
  • Open Science Framework (OSF)
  • Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
  • ORCID
  • LaTeX

Availability: Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays 1:00-3:00 pm and by appointment

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Tyler Pearson

From: University Libraries

Areas of expertise: 

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Scripting
  • Web scraping / data scraping
  • Workflow automation
  • Interacting with APIs
  • Containerization / Docker
  • Microservices

Availability: Thursdays, 1:00-3:00 pm

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Amanda Schilling

From: University Libraries

Areas of expertise: 

  • Literature searches/reviews especially in the subject areas of astronomy, physics, mathematics, and meteorology
  • Citation management
  • Open Science Framework (OSF)
  • Public data access/use especially in the subject area of astronomy
  • LaTeX & Texmaker

Availability: by appointment

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Horst Severini

From: OSCER 

Areas of expertise: 

Availability: virtually by appointment 

Email Horst


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