Senior Analyst for Research Software (RS)
Qian Zhang joins the Alliance from the University Library and Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, where she worked with the Council on Library and Information Resource (CLIR) as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Software Curation. Over the course of her academic career, she has accumulated vast and varied experience as a domain scientist, data/software curator, project leader, grant writer and teacher, among other roles. With a PhD in Physical Oceanography (with a minor in Electrical and Computer Engineering) from Louisiana State University, Qian speaks multiple languages and is an expert in various program languages as well as open source development tools.