Beth A. Plale

Beth A. Plale, Ph.D.
Director, Data to Insight Center
Managing Director, Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI)
Professor of Computer Science

Beth Plale is a full Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. She has broad research and governance interest in long term preservation and access to scientific data, and enabling computational access to large-scale data for broader groups of researchers. Her specific research interests are in tools for metadata and provenance capture, data repositories, cyberinfrastructure for large-scale data analysis, and workflow systems. Plale is deeply engaged in geoinformatics research and education and has substantive experience in developing stable and useable scientific cyberinfrastructure.

Plale is co-PI and IU lead on the DataNet SEAD project, Chair of the HathiTrust Research Center Executive Management Team, an ACM Senior Member and IEEE Member, member of AAUP, past Fellow of the CIC Academic Leadership Program, and is on the editorial board for Journal of Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience.

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Professor Beth Plale
School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University
919 E. 10th St
Bloomington, IN 47408
+1 (812) 855-4373 (voice)
+1 (812) 856-3254 (alternate voice contact at Innovation Center)
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  • Yogesh Simmhan, Microsoft Research
  • Sharanya Chinnusamy, MS, at Microsoft
  • Ashish Bhangale, MS, at Microsoft
  • Ying Liu, Ph.D Cisco
  • Sangmi Lee Pallickara, Ph.D. Colorado State Univ
  • Nithya Vijayakumar, Ph.D. Cisco
  • Shribabu Doddapaneni, MS
  • Heejoon Chae, IU
  • Bin Cao, PhD, Teradata Corp.
  • Suresh Marru, IU

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Last updated December 2010