Ramona Walls
Data Collaboration Center Director
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRamona Walls is a data scientist and biologist with 15 years of experience designing ontology-driven data integration systems across biodiversity, biomedical research, space situational awareness, and environmental health. She currently directs the Data Collaboration Center and leads data science at Critical Path Institute while holding research appointments at the University of Arizona. Ramona combines deep domain expertise from a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with practical leadership in multi-institution consortia, turning complex semantic models into interoperable data platforms. She is motivated less by data itself than by empowering people and enabling meaningful, collaborative science. Her background bridging academic research and applied data engineering gives her a rare fluency in both experimental biology and scalable informatics. Colleagues often note her artistic eye for elegant data models—an unexpected creative thread behind robust technical solutions.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Environmental Resource Management, Bachelor of Science - BS Environmental Resource Management at Penn State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (103)
json-schema10
ontology10
semantic-web10
metadata10
data-management10
specification10
genomics10
owl10
quantities10
ontologies10
open-science10
data-import10
anatomy10
open-source10
robot10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
GenomicsStandardsConsortium/mixs-rdf
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
UA-SRC-data/srpdio
Mar 2020 - Jan 2024
Superfund Research Project data integration ontology
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 5 PRs in 3 years 11 months
data-integration
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