Rebecca Sutton Koeser

As Lead Research Software Engineer, Rebecca Sutton Koeser co-leads the CDH Research Software Engineering Team with Assistant Director Jeri Wieringa and partners with faculty to create custom research software through CDH collaborative projects. She also serves on Princeton's Research Computing Advisory Group (RCAG).

Rebecca has training in both English Literature and Computer Science, and nearly two decades of experience with software engineering in an academic environment. Before joining CDH, she was a senior software engineer with Emory University Libraries and IT Services, where she contributed to a diverse array of Digital Library and Digital Humanities projects and open source tools. She cares deeply about accessibility, and currently holds the IAAP Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) certification.

Rebecca's wide-ranging interests and capacious curiosity enable her to engage deeply in partnerships with faculty from a range of fields (English Literature, History and Near Eastern Studies, Philosophy). Current research interests include working and reasoning with missing data; this is reflected in the article "Missing Data, Speculative Reading", co-authored with Zoe LeBlanc, and the python library undate for working with partially known and fuzzy dates, which expands on work from the Shakespeare and Company Project and the Princeton Geniza Project. She has continued interest in data visualization and data physicalization, and thinking carefully about research software development practices and Research Software Engineering for the humanities.

Rebecca serves on the DHTech (ADHO Special Interest Group) Steering Committee and is actively involved in the Code Review Working Group and DH Community Code Review efforts; she also occasionally reviews for the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). She previously served on the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Executive Council (2019-2023).