Beth Plale

DSI Director

Dr. Beth Plale is Director of DSI and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from State University of New York Binghamton with Postdoctoral studies at Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MBA from LaVerne University. She is the PI or Co-PI on over $7M in active research grants, has organized international panels and workshops, and has been a program committee member on over 20 committees. Dr. Plale worked in the software development industry for 7 years prior to returning to academia.

Dirk Van Gucht

DSI Curriculum Lead

Dirk Van Gucht is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science. His research interests are in database theory and systems, data mining, and machine learning.

Felix Terkhorn

Staff Technologist

Felix Terkhorn is the resident software engineer and research technologist at Indiana University's Center for Data and Search Informatics. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Indiana University, and is currently pursuing his Master's degree in the same field. He has assisted with the redesign of the studio space and manages the technology within the lab, as well as this collection of web pages.

Bin Cao

Colloquium Director

Bin Cao is a Postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Data and Search Informatics (DSI). She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering in 2006 from the University of Louisville. Her research interests also include query languages, data models, distributed query processing, and data provenance. She joined DSI in June 2008.

Suresh Marru

Senior Research Scientist

Suresh is a Senior Research Scientist and works on distributed technologies including LEAD and TeraGrid.  He has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Oklahoma University.

Geoffrey Brown

Digital preservation, embedded system design, hardware/software codesign, concurrent system verification

Memo Dalkilic

Data mining, bioinformatics

Dennis Gannon

Service-oriented architectures (SOAs), grid computing, workflow (BPEL), notification systems, service factories

Dirk Van Gucht

Search languages, data models and uncertainty

Dennis Groth

Information visualization, provenance

Minaxi Gupta

Computer networks, distributed systems, network security, network performance

Sun Kim

Bioinformatics, data filtering and mining, algorithms

David Leake

Intelligent interfaces, case-based reasoning, concept maps

Fil Menczer

Social implications of search, text and link analysis, Internet topology and modeling

Beth Plale

Provenance, metadata catalogs, automated data curation in workflow systems, e-Science, complex events processing

Ed Robertson

Database systems theory and practice, enterprise architectures and information systems modeling, software engineering

Luis Rocha

Complex adaptive systems, computational intelligence

Kalpana Shankar

Social analysis of data and data use

Eric Stolterman

Human-computer interaction design, information systems design & use

Cathy M. Wyss

Database query languages, natural language processing, theoretical foundations of databases

Yuqing (Melanie) Wu

Access control for XML, database systems