🌄About Me
Kassy Raymond is a PhD candidate in Computational Sciences at the University of Guelph with a background in biology, bioinformatics, machine learning, informatics, and data governance. She has worked at the intersection of One Health and data, serving as the Technical Manager for the Global Burden of Animal Diseases (GBADs) Informatics theme and as the first Data Engineer at Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health.
Kassy has presented internationally, including as an invited panelist at the United Nations FAO in Rome and at the launch of the Datasphere Initiative during a G7 Multistakeholder Meeting. She was also selected as a Fellow of the Datasphere Initiative. Her work has been recognized through awards such as the NSERC CGS-D, Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), and the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship.
- One Health
- Informatics
- Information Retrieval
PhD Candidate Computational Sciences
University of Guelph
MSc Bioinformatics
University of Guelph
BSc Biological Sciences
University of Guelph
My research explores how we can make animal health and production data more accessible, interoperable, and usable, particularly across international systems. My work focuses on operationalizing data governance principles to improve the quality, discoverability, and reusability of livestock data.
I am particularly interested in using graph databases to model the relationships between datasets, metadata, and vocabularies from open intergovernmental and national sources. By developing frameworks and digital infrastructure that supports metadata-driven search and classification, my goal is to enable more consistent, interoperable access to data within a fragmented global data landscape. I aim to align my work principles emphasizing responsible, ethical, and equitable data stewardship.
TL;DR I am passionate about creating stronger, interoperable, data systems that improve data quality for better estimates, contributing to our understanding of urgent global challenges such as climate change, antimicrobrial resistance, food security, and zoonotic disease.
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