Beth A. Plale, Ph.D.Director, Data to Insight Center
Managing Director, Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI)
Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
Professor Plale 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 interdisciplinary research and education
and has substantive experience in developing stable and useable scientific cyberinfrastructure.
Professor Plale is
Research Data Alliance-US Technology Co-Chair
Co-PI and IU lead on NSF DataNet Sustainable Environments-Actionable Data (SEAD) project
Co-Director, HathiTrust Research Center
ACM Senior Member and IEEE Member; DOE Early Career Awardee; past Fellow of the CIC Academic Leadership Program
Editorial board for Journal of Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience.
Contact information:
Professor Beth Plale
School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University
919 E. 10th St
Bloomington, IN 47408
+1 (812) 855-4373 (voice)
+1 (812) 856-1064 (Robert Ping, exec asst)
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