I am Malvika.
I'm on a mission to transform research, data science, and AI through open source/science, community building, and inclusivity.
More about me:
- π As a recognised expert, provided consultations, training and fundamental resources for 100+ open science and open source initiatives and their communities
- πͺ Co-led The Turing Way and established the first Research Community Management (RCM) team at the Alan Turing Institute - currently serve in The Turing Way Steering Committee and is a founding member of RCM Cooperative
- π§ Co-founded OLS (Open Life Science) in 2019, which has delivered 11 cohorts of the Open Seeds training and mentoring programme, engaging 700 international open practitioners
- π£ As a thought leader in open science and community building, delivered keynotes and talks at major international events such as CarpentryConnect, Open Science Fair, Funders Forum, Maintainers Summit, SciPy, OpenCon, and AI-UK
- π Featured in 100 Brilliant Women in AI EthicsTM 2024 list, 2025 Top 100 Future Leaders by Empower, JISC Community Champion 2022, CogX Tech Community Leader 2020, Software Sustainability Institute Fellows
- π₯ Current and past member of several advisory boards and committees, including NASA Transform to Open Science, The Carpentries, Code for Science and Society, Open Bioinformatics Foundation, Society of RSE and CSID-Network
Learn more about me and connect via my π Website: malvikasharan.github.io
I am reusing Abby's README. π₯