Ciera Martinez
Senior Research Program Manager at Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolCiera Martinez is a Senior Research Program Manager and data science researcher at UC Berkeley’s Schmidt Center, with 12 years of cross-disciplinary experience bridging molecular biology, evolutionary genomics, biodiversity, and environmental data science. She designs and leads programs that make complex data actionable for environmental decision-making, building open, reproducible workflows, training, and tools across the full data pipeline from imaging and audio to bioinformatics. Her technical toolkit spans R, Python, neural networks for computer vision and DNA pattern recognition, and thoughtful data visualization to communicate results. Ciera’s commitment to open science and inclusive research practices informs both her program leadership and hands-on research, and her background in 4D microscopy and comparative genomics gives her a rare perspective on integrating temporal biological data with large-scale environmental datasets.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology at University of California, DavisBachelor’s Degree Biology Chemistry, Bachelor’s Degree Biology Chemistry at Northeastern Illinois University
Github Skills (41)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cabinetofcuriosity/coc_lewis_clark_workshop
Apr 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
iamciera/sister-of-pin1-material
Jan 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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