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). 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

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. Following her Ph.D. she was a postdoctoral fellow at

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. 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. In 2013, Plale was one of the founding scientists of the

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, a group working to improve open access to data. From 2017 until 2021, Plale was a science advisor at the National Science Foundation.

Selected publications

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Awards and honors

In 2004, Plale received an early career award from the United States Department of Energy. In 2006, Plale was named a senior member of the

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. Plale was a keynote speaker at the 2020 PIDapalooza meeting.

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