Yo Yehudi

Yo is the Executive Director and co-founder of OLS , a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow , NASA grantee, member of the board of directors of The Carpentries .

Yo’s research focuses on qualitative and mixed-method studying human factors in research software and open communities, with a particular interest around finding better ways to understand what makes the humans and communities harmonious and long-lived, with strong wellbeing for the community members.

Previous roles include editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit , Codefirst:Girls coding instructor, Research Software Alliance steering committee member, Mozilla volunteer, editor emeritus for the Journal of Open Source Software , board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation , and software developer at working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine , based at the University of Cambridge.