People & Partners

Core Team

Jane Greenberg, Alice B. Kroeger Professor, Director of the Metadata Research Center

Yuan An, Associate Professor

David Breen, Professor

Xiaohua Tony Hu,
Professor

Mat Kelly, Assistant Professor

John Kunze, Yet Another Metadata ZooKeeper

Scott McClellan, Graduate Research Assistant

Joel Pepper, Graduate Research Assistant

Kio Polson, Graduate Research Assistant

Chris Rauch, Graduate Research Assistant

Emma Romero, Undergraduate Research Assistant

Xintong Zhao, Graduate Research Assistant

Research Affiliates

Collaborators

MRC Alumni

  • Deborah Barreau / Memex Metadata (M2) for Student Portfolios
  • Rebecca Boyles / MetaDataCAPT’L
  • Gema Bueno-de-la-Fuente / HIVE
  • Thomas Caruso / MetaDataCAPT’L
  • Erin Clary / Dryad
  • Evelyn Daniel / Plant Information Center (PIC), OpenKey, Bot 2.0
  • Elena Feinstein / Dryad
  • Deborah Garwood, PhD Drexel 2021 / NSF Spoke Project, A Licensing Model and Ecosystem for Data Sharing
  • Sam Grabus, Ph.D. candidate, LEADING, NSF Spoke Project, A Licensing Model and Ecosystem for Data Sharing
  • P. Bryan Heidorn / OpenKey
  • Yves Jaques / HIVE
  • Keith Jeffrey / Research Data Alliance (RDA)
  • Liz Jenkins / CVDI Research Assistant
  • Johannes Keizer / HIVE
  • Rebeca Koskela / Research Data Alliance (RDA)
  • John Kunze / DataONE
  • Howard Lander / HIVE
  • Hilmar Lapp/Dryad / HIVE
  • Ellen Leadem / AMeGA, MGR
  • Jeremy Leipzig, PhD Drexel 2021 / RCR project and Research Assistant, NSF-HDR: Biology-guided Neural Networks for Discovering Phenotypic Traits
  • Ajani Levere, STAR Scholar / BGNN
  • Kai Li / CVDI Research Assistant on CVID and LEADS Fellow
  • Ou Stella Liang / HIVE ontology project
  • Jane Lipmann / CVDI and Chamber’s Ontology Project
  • Hongwei Liu / CVDI Data Science Fellow
  • Dickson Lukose / HIVE
  • Sara Mannheimer / Dryad
  • Nassib Nassar / AMMGO, DataONE
  • John L. Oberlin / Memex Metadata (M2) for Student Portfolios
  • Adrian Ogletree / DRYAD, MetaDataCAPT’L
  • Amy Opalek, PhD Drexel / Information Scientist at FAIMER
  • Jose R. Pérez-Agüera / HIVE
  • David Osei-Poku / HIVE
  • W. Davenport Robertson / AMeGA, MGR
  • Chloe Rotman, Graduate Research Assistant
  • Chelcie Rowell / DataONE, HIVE
  • Eva Mendez Rodriguez / Memex Metadata (M2) for Student Portfolios, HIVE
  • Lauren Sands / CVDI Graduate Student Assistant
  • Carly Schanock / Project Manager for LEADS-4-NDP
  • Ryan Scherle / Dryad
  • Jennifer Scott / Graduate Student, Ontology Researcher—Independent Study
  • Michael Shoffner / Bot 2.0
  • Stephen Seiberling / Plant Information Center (PIC), OpenKey, Bot 2.0
  • Christie Silbajoris / AMMGO
  • Garritt Tucker / CVDI
  • Todd Vision / Dryad
  • Alan Weakly / Plant Information Center (PIC), OpenKey, Bot 2.0
  • Hollie White / Dryad, HIVE
  • Peter S. White / Plant Information Center(PIC), OpenKey, Bot2.0
  • Yue Zhang / HIVE

Advisory Board Alumni

  • Jenn Riley (2012-2014) – Head, Carolina Digital Library and Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Stu Weibel (2006-2012) – OCLC, Online Computer Library Center, Inc., Visiting Scholar, School of Information, University of Washington
  • Dave Beckett (2006-2011) – Senior Software Engineer / Architect, Yahoo!
  • Priscilla Caplan (2006-2011) – Assistant Director for Digital Library Services, Florida Center for Library Automation
  • Barbara Tillett (2006-2011) – Chief, Cataloging Policy & Support Office, Library of Congress
  • Kathy Wisser (2008-2009) – Previously Director of Instructional Support, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Celine Noel (2008-2009) – Principal Cataloger, Davis Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In Memoriam

  • Lee Dirks (2009-2012) – Microsoft Research, Advisory Board member