Beth Plale
Executive Director, School Of Computer And Data Sciences
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBeth Plale is an accomplished academic leader and computer scientist with over two decades of experience advancing trustworthy AI, open science, and cyberinfrastructure. As Executive Director of the University of Oregon’s School of Computer and Data Sciences and co-PI of the NSF AI Institute ICICLE, she combines strategic leadership with deep research expertise in AI, data sharing, and reproducible science. Previously a long-serving professor and center director at Indiana University, she has built and led large interdisciplinary programs—founding the HathiTrust Research Center and directing the Data to Insight Center—to accelerate data-driven discovery. Her background spans hands-on software and systems work dating back to aerospace and defense projects, and she has advised national policy on open science during an NSF appointment. Based in Eugene, Oregon, she is known for bridging academic research, infrastructure engineering, and policy to make AI and data practices more transparent and trustworthy.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Binghamton UniversityMBA finance, MBA finance at University of La VerneMSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Temple UniversityBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The University of Southern MississippiPostDoctoral studies Computer Science, PostDoctoral studies Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (15)
location5
php3
python3
neo4j3
ai2
kafka2
cms2
rest-api2
knowledge-graph2
edge-computing2
structured-data1
stream-processing1
visualization1
sql1
w3c1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dimitargnikolov/book-project
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 17 pushes in 8 days
Data-to-Insight-Center/SEADTrain
Jul 2018 - Sep 2025
A pilot project to test publishing data for educational purposes
Contributions:7 pushes in 7 years 2 months
publishingeducational-purposespilot
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