Beth Plale
Director, Center for Data and Search Informatics of Pervasive Technologies Institute
Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Phone
- (812) 855-4373
- Fax
- (812) 855-4829
- Office
- Lindley Hall, Room 301C
- Web Site
- www.cs.indiana.edu/~plale
Research Interests
Professor Plale is an experimental computer scientist working in data management and data-driven cyberinfrastructure in interdisciplinary research settings. Specifically, Plale's research interests are in data provenance, automated metadata collection and data curation, workflow systems in e-Science, and complex events processing.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, State University of New York Binghamton, 1998
Biography
Dr. Plale is a national leader in data and information management. She is the founder and Director of the Center for Data and Search Informatics (DSI) in the School of Informatics, and leads the Data to Insight Center in the 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 co-founded the Women in Informatics and Computing group at IU. Dr. Plale received a PhD in Computer Science in 1998 and an MBA in 1986. She is a recipient of the prestigious DOE Early Career Award and has authored or co-authored over 65 publications. ACM Senior Member and IEEE Member.
