Beth A. Plale, Ph.D.

Beth A. Plale

Beth A. Plale, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Research School of Informatics
Director, Center for Data and Search Informatics (DSI) of the Informatics Research Institute
Associate Professor Department of Computer Science
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Informatics
Indiana University
Co-founder WIC@IU

Plale's research interest is in large-scale data management, e-Science, provenance and metadata in scientific data, stream mining and event processing, grid computing, service oriented architectures, data archival. ACM Senior Member and IEEE Member.

Contact information:
Beth Plale
Department of Computer Science
215 Lindley Hall
Bloomington, IN 47405-7104
+1 (812) 855-4373 (voice)
+1 (812) 855-4829 (fax)
e-mail

Short bio
Curriculum vitae
Student meeting calendar (internal)
Picture (high res)

Publications

Various Whitepapers

Unified Programming Model for Instrument-driven e-Science Workflows?, June 2008
Cyberinfrastructure for Data-driven Digital Knowledge Discovery, April 2007
Workload Characterization and Analysis of Storage and Bandwidth Needs of LEAD Workspace , LEAD TR001 V3.0, January, 2007
In Data Driven Computational Science the Systems Issues are the Pressure Point to Information Integration, September 2006
Is Grid Computing Passe?, August 2004.

Teaching

CSCI P436 Introduction to Operating Systems, Fall 2007, MW 2:30-3:45
CSCI B534 Distributed Systems. Spring '07 MW 5:30-6:45 p.m.
Center for Data and Search Informatics Seminar Series
CSCI B438 Fundamentals of Computer Networks
CSCI B649 Systems Support for Wide Area Applications
Systems Research Seminar, weekly seminar for discussing systems research topics. (No longer being offered.)

Research

Center for Data and Search Informatics (DSI) - DSI is a cross-disciplinary research center focusing on analysis, modeling, visualization, and representation of large and complex data.
Distributed Data Everywhere Lab (DDE)

LEAD Science Gateway
Data and Information Model of LEAD, November 2006.
Personal metadata catalog for e-Science - myLEAD
Resource Catalog Service - index service for heterogeneous data collections
Calder - grid enabled SQL based event stream processing
- dQUOB. Phased out; now part of Calder
Karma provenance framework and quality model.

Lab Members

Current students and staff

Felix Terkhorn, Research scientist
Scott Jensen, Ph.D. candidate
Yiming Sun, Ph.D. candidate
Ai Zhang, Ph.D. student
Heejoon Chae, Ph.D. student
Jeff Cox, Ph.D. student
Girish Subramanian, master's student
You-Wei Cheah, undergraduate
Nathan Schroeder, undergraduate

Past lab members

Yogesh Simmhan, Microsoft Research
Ying Liu, Cisco
Sangmi Lee Pallickara, Polar-grid project, Indiana University
Nithya Vijayakumar, Cisco

Recent Talks

Improving data capture in science discovery cyberinfrastructure to enable educational outcomes, Learning Sciences Professional Seminar, School of Education, Indiana University, November 2007.
Data Management, Metadata, and Search in Workflow-driven Computational (e-) Science, invited talk Renmin University, Beijing, China, May 2007.
Opening the Gates to Data Driven Computational Science through Cyberinfrastructure, Indiana University Office of Women's Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series, May 2006
Transforming the Sensing and Prediction of Intense Local Weather Through Dynamic Adaptation, NSF Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems (DDDAS) Workshop, January 19-20, 2006.

Other Stuff

Last updated June, 2008