Damian Gessler, Ph.D., Founder, Semantic Options, LLC.

My focus is applying computational approaches to problems recalcitrant to traditional solutions.

Work has been in the exciting area of NASA informatics, including architecting, designing, coding, implementing, testing, and deploying three-tiered, full-stack platforms in support of sub-orbital (airborne) campaigns, the MAIA satellite mission, and on-premise and AWS cloud platforms.

Prior areas of study include a web-scale semantic protocol for data integration [1, 2, 3], informatics and infectious disease [4, 5], mapping genes on chromosomes [6, 7] and computational evolution [8, 9, 10]. Research and discoveries in the last area is probably the most far-reaching, though its long-term impact remains unknown.

I have also done work on COVID-19 and how to rethink simple presentations on everyday problems. For example, see HowToPayAMortgage.com.

Damian brings 40 years experience to data, computation, and semantic challenges. Author of 29 peer-reviewed scientific publications spanning multiple areas in biology and informatics; Former Principal Investigator and co-Principal Investigator in multiple National Science Foundation grants for research in Semantic Web technologies, and founder of Semantic Options, LLC, Damian applies this composite expertise to today's significant data and service integration challenges.

Christina Babcock Gessler, Ph.D. Genetics, AWS Developer and Data Engineer

Christina’s expertise is in scientific data engineering. Christina is a certified AWS Solutions Architect (since 2016) and certified AWS Developer Associate. Her experience spans reactive data front-ends (Vue.js), scientific Website development, and AWS data pipelines.