Soyean Kim is a PhD candidate and head of products at the Centre for Infectious Disease Genomics and One Health at Simon Fraser University, part of a public health alliance addressing genomic epidemiology. With more than 18 years’ experience in data science, statistics and machine learning, she was previously director of digital products at Providence Healthcare, past chair of the accreditation committee at the Statistical Society of Canada, and has worked with the United Nation’s global working group on big data.