SJ has over 25 years’ experience in developing editorial/peer review and journal production workflow software.
He currently works at Aries Systems designing software solutions, such as Editorial Manager®, ProduXion Manager® and LiXuid Manuscript™.
His role is to translate the needs of authors, reviewers, editors and publishers into product designs that Aries software developers can deliver.
David Mellor leads the policy and incentive programs at the Center for Open Science in order to reward increased transparency and reduced bias in scientific research.
These include policies for publishers and funders in the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines (TOP: cos.io/top); preregistration to increase clarity in study design and analysis (cos.io/prereg); removing publication bias with Registered Reports (cos.io/rr); and recognizing increased transparency with badges (cos.io/badges).
Before coming to the Center for Open Science, Dr. Mellor worked with citizen scientists to design and implement authentic scientific research during his post-doc at Virginia Tech (collaborativescience.org) and as the Director of Advising in the Division of Life Sciences at Rutgers University. He received his dissertation in citizen science and the behavioral ecology of cichlid fishes from Rutgers University.
Chris has worked for 20 years at the interface of publishing and technology in a variety of roles at Current Science, Elsevier, BioMed Central, Qatar Foundation, and Emerald.
His passion is making technology useful, usable, and accessible for academic researchers and information professionals. He is currently investigating how technology can be used to give time back to the researcher, at each point along the research continuum from idea through to funding, research, publication, and impact.
Tom Morris has spent more than twenty years in IT, as a principal architect in publishing systems integration projects, before becoming CTO as Ixxus, and subsequently Senior Director, Engineering, at Copyright Clearance Center.
In his role, he has led infrastructure, and development teams, but has given particular attention to content and knowledge organisation systems.
Andy Halliday is Senior Product Manager at Springer Nature.
Andy’s work is focussed on the development of content services and the future of content at Springer Nature. This work includes looking at how new technologies can solve user problems by improving the efficacy and usability of scientific content.
He also sits on two NISO working groups: Video & Audio Metadata Guidelines and Content Platform Migration.
Andy has worked in the publishing industry for over 15 years.
Rebecca Grant is Head of Data & Software Publishing at F1000. Her work in academic publishing has focused on the implementation of research data policies across journals and the development training and support for researchers to encourage best practices in data management and sharing. She has a background in data management for the humanities and social sciences and was previously based at the Digital Repository of Ireland and the National Library of Ireland. Her doctoral thesis explored the connections between archival theory and research data management practice.
Andrew leads Hindawi’s product and technology teams in London.
He started at Hindawi in 2011, working on new ventures and product development.
He has worked previously on privacy technology at Enliken and as a multimedia producer at Asia Society.
Andrew has a B.A. in Chinese from Yale University and an M.B.A. from NYU Stern.
Sadia Shahid is Director of Strategy, Growth and Partnerships at wizdom.ai, an AI-powered start-up from the Oxford University Software Incubator that was acquired by Informa plc, a FTSE 100 company.
Sadia is part of the founding team at wizdom.ai, the research intelligence graph that interconnects billions of data points about the global research ecosystem using Artificial
Intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing.
She works across the board to develop the company’s strategic direction, from product and business development to building partnerships with academia, publishers, industry and funders. As part of the wider Taylor & Francis Group, Sadia works across the organisation to solve business challenges common to academic publishing with wizdom.ai research intelligence.
Sadia holds an MSc in Financial Economics from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. She is also part of Informa Ventures, the corporate venture capital fund of Informa
that invests in the knowledge and information economy.
Rob Firth is a Research Scientist at The Hartree Centre, with a specialism in Natural Language Processing.
The Hartree Centre is a high performance computing, data analytics and artificial intelligence research facility focused on industry-led challenges, and is part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, under UKRI.
Working with partners across industry and academia, Rob has experience Language Modelling for technical domains, Transfer Learning with Small Data, and building at-scale document processing pipelines on cloud and HPC platforms.
His outputs notably include open tools for text mining Life Science literature, producing automatic annotation and relationship mappings of Protein Residue Mentions and Mutations, with collaborators at the European Bioinformatics Institute; enriching existing data and empowering researchers with higher resolution search and relationship insights.
He holds a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Southampton, where his research focused on the physics of Type Ia supernovae and their use in Observational Cosmology.
Susan Crean is Business Development Consultant at 67 Bricks, an Oxford-based software consultancy specialising in developing content delivery solutions for scholarly publishers.
During her 25-year career in publishing, Susan has worked with publishers of all shapes and sizes to help them protect and grow their online content assets.
In particular, Susan has extensive experience in identifying solutions that solve publisher problems and is well placed to help publishers address the challenges in defining and delivering optimal solutions for their end users.
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