Ronald Sprouse holds a part-time appointment with Research IT as a member of the Secure Research Data and Compute (SRDC) service team. He is also an Information Systems Analyst in the Linguistics Department.
Within SRDC he supports the provisioning and setup of virtual machine research environments for the analysis of sensitive data.
His areas of expertise include data management and analysis of language documentation and research, including signal and image processing for phonetics and the long-term preservation of and access to field materials of endangered languages. He manages the technical infrastructure of the California Language Archive, which preserves unique primary language materials for use in linguistic research and language revitalization efforts.