R Geiger
Ethnographer Postdoc at University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolR. Geiger is an ethnographer and postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley’s Institute for Data Science who studies the infrastructures, institutions, and everyday practices that shape knowledge production, with deep expertise in Wikipedia, open science, and the sociotechnical dimensions of machine learning. With over a decade of experience spanning a PhD in Information and roles at Georgetown and Berkeley, he blends critical theory, science and technology studies, and practical software work to analyze how platforms and cyberinfrastructure reorganize scholarly and public knowledge. He contributes to open-source academic website tooling—improving the popular academicpages template and front-end presentation for scholarly portfolios—demonstrating fluency in HTML/CSS/JS alongside qualitative research. Based in Berkeley, he bridges ethnographic methods and hands-on web development to make both theory and research outputs more discoverable and usable.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information at University of California, BerkeleyB.A., Humanities Honors, B.A., Humanities Honors at The University of Texas at AustinMA, Communication, Culture, and Technology, MA, Communication, Culture, and Technology at Georgetown University
Github Skills (10)
html10
css10
markdown10
mysite10
markdown-it10
website-design10
github-pages10
jekyll10
javascript9
site-design8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
academicpages/academicpages.github.io
Sep 2016 - Jun 2019
Github Pages template based upon HTML and Markdown for personal, portfolio-based websites.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 51 PRs, 268 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:R primarily focused on enhancing the academicpages website by implementing various updates. They refactored and generalized existing items and added examples. Furthermore, the user worked on updating the archive-single.html file, iteratively improving its display of publication and talk information. They also added a link to the talkmap, implemented support for the talk map, and made other cosmetic changes.
markdownjekylljekyll-theme
academicpages/group-meeting
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
A Jekyll template (based on holman/left) for a group that has regularly scheduled meetings, one post per date. Genericized from thehackerwithin/template
Contributions:42 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
jekyll
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