Summary
Claire O'neill is a conservation-focused technologist and founder with over a decade of experience bridging statistical science, AI methods, and community-driven environmental research. As cofounder and president of Earthwise Aware she designs participatory biodiversity and climate programs that combine rigorous open-data practices with equitable, culturally aware engagement. Previously she led advanced R&D teams at Oracle, bringing deep expertise in constraint programming, optimization, Bayesian statistics and Monte Carlo methods to large-scale decision and planning systems. Claire translates complex mathematical and AI techniques into practical tools and standards for citizen science, helping agencies and grassroots groups adopt evidence-based conservation. Unusually, her career fuses high-level enterprise product development with hands-on ecological monitoring and ethics work, reflecting a rare blend of technical leadership and naturalist stewardship.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorate, Statistics, Doctorate, Statistics at Université de Rouen
English, French