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Building RSE Communities Worldwide: New Zealand

Nooriyah Poonawala Lohani

New Zealand eScience Infrastructure

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New Zealand eScience Infrastructure

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  • Background in Computer science and Genetics

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  • Bioinformatician in a publicly listed cancer diagnostics company (Pacific Edge)

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  • Senior Bioinformatician at the Bioinformatics Institute at the University of Auckland

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  • Currently completing a PhD in computer science - Developing methods for forecasting Influenza like illness cases in New Zealand

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  • Research communities advisor at NeSI

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New Zealand eScience Infrastructure

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High Performance Computing – computation and analytics

Consultancy�Training

Data transfer

New Zealand eScience Infrastructure

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What kind(s) of RSE groups or communities exist in New Zealand

  • The RSE Association of Australia and New Zealand https://rse-aunz.github.io
  • Overlapping communities
    • Data science community in NZ
    • Carpentries
  • A central group of RSE’s that is shared within an institute
    • Recently Crown Research Institutes and Universities are creating RSE roles
    • Centre for eResearch at the University of Auckland
  • Accelerator program at ESR that allows RSEs to mentor their colleagues
    • They are working on scaling this up in 2022 to include other institutions
  • NZ RSE conference
    • A more recent event started in 2020 - evolved from an existing conference (Science coding conference)

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New Zealand eScience Infrastructure

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nooriyah.lohani@nesi.org.nz

@NeSI_NZ

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www.nesi.org.nz

New Zealand eScience Infrastructure

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New Zealand eScience Infrastructure

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