Malvika Sharan

Malvika Sharan is a cofounder of OLS (Open Life Science Ltd.), a non-profit organisation dedicated to skills and capacity building in open science. Through mentoring and community-based learning processes, OLS's training programmes empower researchers to learn about open science principles, build collaborations with experts, and adopt best practices in their communities.

Malvika is also a senior researcher at The Alan Turing Institute with a focus on open research and community building. She co-leads a team of research community managers and a community project, The Turing Way, which aims to make data science reproducible, collaborative, ethical, and inclusive for researchers around the world.

Malvika is an active contributor to several open science initiatives, a Software Sustainability Institute fellow and one of the 2024 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™.

Sharan, originally from India, spent over a decade in Germany and now resides in the UK. Connect with her on all things community management, open research, digital skill building and smashing stereotypes in data science and AI.

Co-Founder/Co-Director of OLS

OLS is a not-for profit organisation dedicated to capacity building and diversifying leadership in research worldwide. Our flgaship project is Open Seeds, a 16-week training and mentoring programme that has worked with over 700 people who have launched and supported over 375 projects worldwide while stewarding Open Science for their communities.
🎧 Listen to The ORION Open Science Podcast to learn about the origin of OLS.

Senior Researcher - Open Research, The Alan Turing Institute

Members of Open Research Community Building team are community managers from across different research projects at The Alan Turing Institute. Working as a team and with their engagement in The Turing Way, they help ensure that research and data-informed AI solutions at the Turing use and build on open and reproducible research practices. See the webpage for the Open Research Community Building team.

The Turing Way

The Turing Way is an open source project on best practices, guidance and recommendations on data science. I involve and support its diverse community of researchers, educators, policymakers and other stakeholders who develop and promote resources on reproducible, ethical, collaborative and inclusive data science. I founded The Turing Way Practitioners Hub to work with industry professionals to advance and promote open and ethical practices for AI in their respective sectors.
🎧 Listen to Sustain podcast to learn more.

Data Science Without Borders

Data Science Without Borders (DSWB) is an international initiative, funded by the Wellcome Trust and led by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC). The overarching objectives of DSWB are: to strengthen data systems in Pathfinder countries, to create a sustainable environment for collaborative AI/ML platforms, and to create a user-friendly platform for AI and Machine Learning (AI/ML) tools. I am the chair of Open Science and Capacity Building Working Group which aims to build a shared understanding of open science and reproducibility in data science and AI among all members of the DSWB partners, and extend the impact of DSWB for African researchers.

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