John Erickson
Director Of Operations, The Data INCITE Lab At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Bristol, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Erickson is a seasoned research operations leader and systems architect with over three decades of experience building internet technologies, digital rights systems, and metadata standards. As Director of Operations for the Data INCITE Lab and Deputy Director of the Web Science Research Center at RPI, he combines hands-on technical leadership with mentoring and course co‑teaching, running R bootcamps and founding the campus R users group. His background spans HP Labs research, entrepreneurial DRM and copyright automation ventures, and multiple US patents for rights management and security technologies. He is an active contributor to international standards (W3C DCAT co‑editor, OAI ORE, Handle System) and has steered policy-based information systems from prototype to production. Comfortable toggling between academia, industry, and startups, he is as fluent in RDF/SPARQL and linked data as he is in designing operational pipelines that serve research and teaching. Based in New Hampshire, he brings a rare blend of deep technical scholarship, practical product experience, and sustained standards leadership.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, PhD at Dartmouth CollegeM.Eng, M.Eng at Cornell UniversityBSEE, BSEE at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDiploma, Diploma at St. Paul Academy/Summit School
Github Skills (139)
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shiny10
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geography9
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data-science9
data-analysis9
science8
academia8
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
TheRensselaerIDEA/r-bootcamp-2018-rpi
Jan 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
TheRensselaerIDEA/COVIDMINDER
Mar 2020 - Sep 2022
COVIDMINDER: Revealing regional disparities in outcomes, determinants, and mediations of the COVID-19 pandemic
Contributions:1 release, 763 commits, 598 PRs in 2 years 6 months
disparitiesregional
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