Bio for Dr. Beth Plale
Dr. Plale is a national leader in data and information management. She is Director of the
Informatics Research Institute and Center for Data and Search Informatics (DSI).
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's research interest is in the broad area of large-scale data management, specifically stream mining and event
processing, distributed metadata and integration, provenance, grid and service-oriented architectures, and petascale
databases.
Her interest in experimental systems has been strongly influenced by years spent as a software engineer in the defense industry.
Plale is an Associate Professor in the School of Informatics, Department of Computer Science at Indiana University. Member IEEE,
Senior Member ACM, Open Grid Forum Steering Committee.