Yani is rOpenSci Community Manager, R-Ladies Project Lead, and Chair of The Carpentries Board of Directors. She is a professor at several universities in Argentina and Uruguay. She has a background in Information Systems and Agricultural Research (she was a researcher at the Argentine National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) for 24 years). She also has an M.S. in Data Mining and Knowledge Management.
She is a passionate instructor and loves writing and talking about data management, data science, and artificial intelligence in her field. She was global coordinator of useR!2021, co-chair of useR! 2022, chair of the Argentine Congress of Agroinformatics (CAI) and general chair of the Argentine Conference on Informatics and Operational Research (JAIIO).
She is also a Community leader: she co-founds MetaDocencia, LatinR, and R-Ladies Santa Rosa and is a member of the R-Ladies Leadership and Global Team, CSID Network Collaboration Committe, R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee, Open Heroines, PRE Review, OLS, The Turing Way and Sociedad Argentina de Informática.
She also led and was part of several volunteer teams that translated Data Science and teaching material into Spanish and Portuguese. She is a prolific international bilingual speaker, including several keynotes, and teacher thanks to these communities.
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