Beth Plale is Director of the Data To Insight Center which is associated with Pervasive Technology Institute. She is an experimental computer scientist whose research interests are in data management, data-driven computing, and the preservation of scientific and scholarly data sets.  
Plale frequently engages in research problems involving interdisciplinary collaborations with atmospheric and environmental scientists and in digital humanities.  She is a Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University.  
Plale's educational qualifications include a Postdoc at Georgia Institute of Technology, a Ph.D. in 
computer science from State University of New York Binghamton, an MS from Temple University, an MBA from the University of LaVerne, and a BSc in computer science with a minor in mathematics.  She is an ACM Senior Member, IEEE Member, and recipient of the distinguished DOE Early Career Award, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience.