Kai Blumberg
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)
United States
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Top SchoolKai Blumberg is a postdoctoral research fellow with nine years of experience at the intersection of food composition, life sciences ontology, and data interoperability. Currently with ORISE and previously at the USDA and Woods Hole, he develops open-source ontologies and is spearheading a novel minimum information standard for food composition data to make nutrition and environmental data more FAIR. Trained as a PhD in Biological/Biosystems Engineering with an MS in Marine Microbiology, he blends rigorous experimental grounding with semantic web and ontology engineering. Kai’s work uniquely bridges lab-based food composition methods and practical data standards, enabling more reproducible, machine-readable research across nutrition and environmental health domains.
9 years of coding experience
The University of ArizonaThe University of British ColumbiaMaster of Science - MS, Microbiology, General, Master of Science - MS, Microbiology, General at International Max Planck Research School for Marine Microbiology
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Github Skills (103)
ecology10
digital-humanities10
ontology10
data-management10
earth-science10
owl10
ontologies10
semantics10
planetary-science10
data-science10
linked-open-data10
geneontology10
mining9
metadata9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kaiiam/mifc
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
A minimum information standard checklist formalizing the description of food composition data and related metadata.
Contributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 17 PRs in 2 years
CompositionalDietaryNutritionOntology/cdno
Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
Compositional Dietary Nutrition Ontology
Contributions:5 reviews, 127 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 8 months
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