Bio for Dr. Beth Plale
Professor Beth Plale is a national leader in large-scale data and information management. She is Director of the
School of Informatics' sponsored Center for Data and Search Informatics (DSI), and is a director in the
newly funded Pervasive Technologies Institute.
Dr. Plale is on the leadership team of several major grant funded projects including the large NSF funded
LEAD project in cyberinfrastructure for mesoscale meteorology forecasting. She is a Faculty Advisor to the
Indiana University Office of Women's Affairs Women in Science Program and for the Midwest Crossroads Alliance
for Graduate Education and the Professoriate. She co-founded Women in Computing @IU (WIC@IU) in 2001.
Dr. Plale received her PhD in Computer Science in 1998 from State University of New York Binghamton.
Prior to joining Indiana University, Professor Plale was a Postdoctoral fellow in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology.
She received an MBA in 1986.
She is a recipient of the prestigious DOE Early Career Award and has authored or co-authored over 65 publications.
Plale is an experimental computer scientist working in the area of data management and data-driven cyberinfrastructure
in interdisciplinary research settings. Her specific research interests include data provenance, automated
metadata collection and data curation, workflow systems in e-Science, and complex events processing.
Plale's interest in experimental computer science is strongly influenced by years in the software industry designing large-scale systems.
Plale is an Associate Professor in the School of Informatics, Department of Computer Science at Indiana University. Member IEEE and Senior Member of ACM.