Beth Plale, School of Computer and Data Sciences

Biography:

Beth Plale is a nationally recognized scholar whose research focuses on technical and governance challenges at the intersection of AI accountability and AI infrastructure. She investigates approaches to advance transparency, reproducibility, and ethical governance in AI systems, and develops methods for data provenance, data privacy protections, and open science that support rigorous and trustworthy research outcomes. Plale leads efforts on new technical frameworks that enhance accountability in AI systems and explores governance models that preserve data protections while enabling broad scientific access and reuse. She serves as executive director of the School of Computer and Data Sciences at the University of Oregon and is a co-principal investigator on the NSF-funded Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure for Computation in the Environment (ICICLE) AI Institute.