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School of Computer and Data Sciences
Portrait of Beth Plale

Beth Plale

Executive Director for the School of Computer and Data Sciences
Professor
School of Computer and Data Sciences, Computer Science, Data Science
plale@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3433
Office: 205 Deschutes Hall, 1202 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: Values-centered Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI policy and ethics, open science, provenance & reproducibility, AI ethics, and data integrity. Data engineering, experimental computer science.
Website: https://plale-lab.github.io
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Biography

Beth Plale is the Executive Director of the School of Computer and Data Sciences and Professor of computer science at the University of Oregon.  Plale serves as 

Plale is a past member of the FACA NASA Earth Science Advisory Committee, is a founder of the international Research Data Alliance (RDA) (2011) and served as a Science Advisor at the National Science Foundation (NSF) 2017-2022 working on enhancing access to the products of research that is funded by the agency. Plale is a founder of the Indiana University Center of Excellence for Women and Technology (CEWIT), and the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). 

Prior to joining the University of Oregon, Plale held the Michael A and Laurie Burns McRobbie Bicentennial Chair in Computer Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington, served as Chair of the Dept of Intelligent Systems Engineering (IU ISE), and Executive Director of Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI). Plale received the distinguished US Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career award and is a senior member of ACM and IEEE professional societies.  

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Research

Recent Bits

With artificial intelligence permeating scientific research, I return to the 2024 paper that Sadia Khan, Alfonso Morales, and I wrote about convergence research on AI in cyberinfrastructure and AI for AI infrastructure. The study targets democratized AI as a goal, and towards that aim captures the overall context of how software development takes place in AI infrastructure research. It was a thought provoking study when we undertook it, and remains every bit relevant today.

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. 

Representative and broad interest 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

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