User:CyndyParr

Cynthia (Cyndy) Sims Parr

My background

I am still not sure if I am a scientist or an engineer. My doctorate is in biology and my primary interests are in behavior, ecology, and evolution (other keywords: bioacoustics, birds, cooperative breeding). On the other hand, my research for the last eight years or so has almost exclusively been in human-computer interaction and semantic web technology. Always my interest in technology serves my favorite biological domains. Except for a short time when I acted as a systems administrator for a large multi-national financial company.

Currently I hold two research faculty positions where I lead small teams of programmers on a variety of biodiversity-related projects.

My philosophy

• Collaboration
• Bottom-up over top-down
• Darwinian
• Structured over unstructured
• Informal over formal
• Good enough over perfect
• Transparency

More

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