Beth Plale

Beth A. Plale
Alma materState University of New York at Binghamton
Scientific career
ThesisSoftware approach to hazard detection using on-line analysis of safety constraints (1998)
Doctoral advisor

Beth A. Plale is Michael A. and Laurie Burns McRobbie Bicentennial Professor of Computer Engineering at Indiana University. She is known for her work on open science, trust in artificial intelligence, and the policy implications of data science.

Education and career

Plale has a B.Sc. in computer science from the University of Southern Mississippi (1984).[1] She then received an M.B.A. from University of La Verne (1986) and an M.S. from Temple University (1992). In 1998 she earned her Ph.D. from State University of New York Binghamton, jointly supervised by Sudhir Aggarwal and Karsten Schwan.[1]

Following her Ph.D. she was a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology.[2] In 2001, she moved to Indiana University as a tenure track professor. In 2009 she became director of the Data To Insight Center and Executive Director of the Pervasive Technology Institute in 2021.[3]

In 2013, Plale was one of the founding scientists of the Research Data Alliance, a group working to improve open access to data.[4][5] From 2017 until 2021, Plale was a science advisor at the National Science Foundation.[2][6]

Selected publications

  • Schroeder, B.A. (June 1995). "On-line monitoring: a tutorial". Computer. 28 (6): 72–78. doi:10.1109/2.386988. ISSN 1558-0814.
  • Simmhan, Yogesh L.; Plale, Beth; Gannon, Dennis (1 September 2005). "A survey of data provenance in e-science". ACM SIGMOD Record. 34 (3): 31–36. doi:10.1145/1084805.1084812. ISSN 0163-5808. S2CID 1263787.
  • Moreau, Luc; Clifford, Ben; Freire, Juliana; Futrelle, Joe; Gil, Yolanda; Groth, Paul; Kwasnikowska, Natalia; Miles, Simon; Missier, Paolo; Myers, Jim; Plale, Beth (2011-06-01). "The Open Provenance Model core specification (v1.1)". Future Generation Computer Systems. 27 (6): 743–756. doi:10.1016/j.future.2010.07.005. ISSN 0167-739X. S2CID 8294626.

Awards and honors

In 2004, Plale received an early career award from the United States Department of Energy.[7] In 2006, Plale was named a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery.[8] Plale was a keynote speaker at the 2020 PIDapalooza meeting.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "CV for Plale" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-03-03. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Beth A.. Plale". Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering: Profile. Retrieved 2021-12-24.
  3. ^ "New director named for IU Pervasive Technology Institute". News at IU. 14 April 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Key profiles: Beth Plale". RDA. 2013-05-31. Archived from the original on 2013-06-25. Retrieved 2021-12-24.
  5. ^ "Building the Research Data Alliance" (PDF). 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-04-12. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Beth Plale's schedule for PIDapalooza 2020". pidapalooza20.sched.com. Retrieved 2021-12-24.
  7. ^ Plale, Beth A. (2009-10-10). "Time-Based Data Streams: Fundamental Concepts for a Data Resource for Streams". doi:10.2172/966043. OSTI 966043. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ^ "Recipients". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2021-12-24.


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