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.
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) 856-3254 (alternate voice contact at Innovation Center)
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