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.