Beth A. Plale, Ph.D.

Beth A. Plale

Beth A. Plale, Ph.D.
Director, Data to Insight Center of Pervasive Technologies Institute
Director, Center for Data and Search Informatics
Associate Professor of Computer Science
School of Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington

Co-founder WIC@IU

Professor Plale is an experimental computer scientist working in data management and data-driven cyberinfrastructure, largely as interdisciplinary efforts. Specifically, Plale's research interests are in data provenance and metadata, digital preservation of scientific data, workflow systems in e-Science, and complex events processing. ACM Senior Member and IEEE Member.

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

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Publications

Selected Materials

Data provenance for preservation of digital geoscience data, Beth Plale, Bin Cao, Chathura Herath, and Yiming Sun, Preprint, June 2009.
Center for Data and Search Informatics (DSI) Research and Academic Vision Spring 2009.
The LEAD Roadmap: an Integrative Framework for Utilizing and Sharing Community Resources to Enhance Understanding and Impact of Weather, February 2009.
Workload Characterization and Analysis of Storage and Bandwidth Needs of LEAD Workspace , LEAD TR001 V3.0, Jan 2007
Is Grid Computing Passe?, Aug 2004.

Teaching

Center for Data and Search Informatics Seminar Series
CSCI B534 Distributed Systems.
CSCI B669/INFO I590Topics in Data and Search Informatics. An introductory graduate level course on key topics in data and search.
CSCI P436, Introduction to Operating Systems
CSCI B438 Fundamentals of Computer Networks
CSCI B649 Systems Support for Wide Area Applications
Systems Research Seminar; 2004-2007.

Research

Distributed Data Everywhere Lab (DDE)
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.
LEAD - portal to data and analysis tools for weather research.

Lab Members

Current members:

Felix Terkhorn, Research technologist
Bin Cao, Postdoctoral Fellow
Suresh Marru, Senior research scientist
Eran Chinthaka, Ph.D. candidate
Chathura Herath, Ph.D. candidate
Scott Jensen, Ph.D. candidate
Yiming Sun, Ph.D. candidate
Heejoon Chae, Ph.D. student
Jeff Cox, Ph.D. student
Yuan Luo, Ph.D. student
Sharanya Chinnusamy, MS student
Girish Subramanian, MS student
Shribabu Doddapaneni, MS student

Past lab members

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

Recent Talks

Beyond LEAD: Impact, Education, and Future Plans, Supercomputing 2008. <
Provenance of Digital Scientific Data, Supercomputing 2008.
Research instrumentation for cyberinfrastructure, data-intensive computing and weather forecasting, Invited talk. NSF Workshop on Instrumentation Needs of Computer and Information Science Engineering, Snowbird, Utah, July 2008.
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 2009