Craig Stewart

As Executive Director of PTI, Dr. Stewart coordinates much of the "delivery and support" portion of PTI's "Research, development, delivery, and support" roles. He coordinates the PTI Service and Cyberinfrastructure and their services to PTI research centers and the community at large, as well as many PTI-related activities in economic development. Stewart serves as Associate Dean or Research Technologies at Indiana University, and is responsible for IU's activities in high performance computing, advanced storage, advanced visualization, and IT infrastructure for the life sciences. He is principal investigator for NSF grants to Indiana University for the National Center for Genome Analysis Support and IU's participation in XSEDE - the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment. as a resource provider in the NSF-funded TeraGrid. Stewart has worked in computing at Indiana University since 1985. A Ph.D. biologist, Stewart has published in the areas of grid computing, high performance computing, computing for the life sciences, quality and accountability in information technology services, and thermal physiology and natural history of mammals.

Beth A. Plale

Professor Beth Plale serves as Managing Director for PTI. As such, she convenes the PTI Research Center Leadership Council (composed of two representatives of each of the four Research Centers), and coordinates the research mission of PTI. Dr. Plale has set a very simple mission for the four research centers of PTI: excellence in research.

Dr. Plale is Director of the Data to Insight Center and professor of Computer Science and Informatics. Plale is a national leader in data and information management and serves on leadership teams of several major grant funded projects. Plale leads the Hathi Trust Research Center funded by the Sloan foundation, and is the IU PI for the Sustainable Environment-Actionable Data (SEAD) project, funded by the NSF's DataNet program. SEAD will develop tools and services for active curation and longterm preservation of scientific data, while also engaging researchers through social networking tools. She is a Faculty advisor to the Indiana University Office of Women's Affairs Women in Science Program and for the Midwest Crossroads Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate. She co-founded Women in Computing @IU (WIC@IU) in 2001. Dr. Plale received a PhD in Computer Science in 1998 and an MBA in 1986. She is a recipient of the prestigious DOE Early Career Award and has authored or co-authored over 65 publications.

Fred Cate

Fred H. Cate is a Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington and director of the Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. He specializes in privacy, security, and other information law issues, and appears regularly before Congress, government agencies, and professional and industry groups on these matters.

Professor Cate is a senior policy advisor to the Center for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams and a member of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals, and the board of editors of Privacy & Information Law Report. He also serves as reporter for the American Law Institute's project on Principles of the Law on Government Access to and Use of Personal Digital Information.

Previously, Professor Cate served as counsel to the Department of Defense Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee, reporter for the third report of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, and a member of the Federal Trade Commission's Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security. He directed the Electronic Information Privacy and Commerce Study for the Brookings Institution and chaired the International Telecommunication Union's High-Level Experts on Electronic Signatures and Certification Authorities.

He is the author of many articles and books, and appears regularly in the popular press. A senator and fellow of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and an elected member of the American Law Institute, Professor Cate received his J.D. and his A.B. with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University. He is listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in American Education. In 2007 Computerworld listed him as the only academic on its list of "Best Privacy Advisers" in the United States and Europe.

Geoffrey C. Fox

Ph.D. , Cambridge University (Theoretical Physics), 1967

Geoffrey Fox received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University and is now professor of Informatics and Computing, and Physics at Indiana University where he is director of the Digital Science Center and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the School of Informatics and Computing.  He previously held positions at Caltech, Syracuse University and Florida State University. He has supervised the PhD of 62 students and published over 600 papers in physics and computer science. He currently works in applying computer science to Bioinformatics, Defense, Earthquake and Ice-sheet Science, Particle Physics and Chemical Informatics. He is principal investigator of FutureGrid – a new facility to enable development of new approaches to computing. He is involved in several projects to enhance the capabilities of Minority Serving Institutions. 

phone: 812-219-4643

email: gcf [at] indiana [dot] edu

website:  http://www.infomall.org

Andrew Lumsdaine

Professor Andrew Lumsdaine received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1992 and from 1992 through 2001, he was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include computational science and engineering, parallel and distributed computing, software engineering, generic programming, mathematical software, and numerical analysis. Professor Lumsdaine is a member of ACM, IEEE, and SIAM, as well as the MPI Forum, the BLAS technical forum and the ISO C++ standards committee. In 1995, he received the Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. In 2010, he was a recipient of the "Best Paper" award at the IEEE/ACM SC10 conference

William K. Barnett, Ph.D.

National Center for Genome Analysis

William Barnett serves as Director of the National Center for Genome Analysis Suport (NCGAS), and also serves in several other roles (Director,Science Community Tools; Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Cybersecurity Research;Director of Information Architectures for the Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute). In addition to his experience in information technologies for the life sciences, Barnett also has experience in digital libraries, multimedia technologies and has worked in both museum and nonprofit environments. Before coming to IU, Barnett was Deputy Director of the Fresno Metropolitan Museum in California and Vice President and CIO at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Barnett holds degrees from the College of William and Mary, and Boston University.