Beth Plale
Biography
Beth Plale is the Executive Director of the School of Computer and Data Sciences at the University of Oregon. Prior to coming to the University of Oregon, Plale was at Indiana University Bloomington where she held the Michael A and Laurie Burns McRobbie Bicentennial Chair in Computer engineering, spent two years as the Chair of the Dept of Intelligent Systems Engineering (IU ISE), and several years as the Executive Director of Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI).
Plale is a computational and data scientist whose research interests are in software, hardware, and governance infrastructure for AI, high performance computing, open science, provenance & reproducibility, AI ethics, and data accountability.
Plale is a co-PI of the US NSF Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure for Computation in the Environment (ICICLE) AI Institute. She served at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) 2017 -2022 as a Science Advisor in Open Science.She is a founder of the international Research Data Alliance (RDA) consortium, the Center of Excellence for Women and Technology (CEWIT) at Indiana University, and the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC).
Plale received the distinguished US Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career award and is a senior member of ACM and IEEE professional societies.
Select Publications
Widener, P., L. Biven, I.T. Foster, B. Plale, S. Oral, R. Ferreira da Silva, Scientific Data Management Beyond Traditional Computing Boundaries, to appear Computer, IEEE CS Press
Khan, S., Morales, A., Plale, B. (2024). Democratization is a Process, not a Destination: Operationalizing Ethics and Democratization in a Cyberinfrastructure for AI Project. In: Ziosi, M., Sartor, G., Cunha, J.M., Trotta, A., Wicke, P. (eds). AI for People, Democratizing AI. CAIP 2023. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 591. Springer, Cham. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-71304-0_3
Panda, D. K., V. Chaudhary, E. Fosler-Lussier, R. Machiraju, A. Majumdar, B. Plale, R. Ramnath, P. Sadayappan, N. Savardekar, and K. Tomko (2024). Creating Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure for Democratizing AI.” AI Magazine vol 45, pp 22-28. DOI: 10.1002/aaai.12166
Withana, S and B. Plale (2024). Patra ModelCards: AI/ML Accountability in Edge-Cloud Continuum, IEEE 20th Int’l Conf on eScience (eScience), Osaka, Japan Sep 2024