Call me an educator, an academic leader, and a data engineer.

I call the University of Oregon my academic home. There I am the Executive Director of the School of Computer and Data Sciences. Before becoming a duck, I spent a couple of decades at Indiana University in the lovely Bloomington Indiana. I additionally served as a rotator at the National Science Foundation (NSF) (2017 – 2020) working on policy (small “p”) in open science and funding novel initiatives that advance data sharing and open science.

My research interests are in cyberinfrastructure, the edge-cloud continuum, democratizing AI, data provenance and sharing, and open science.

I am a part of the leadership team (co-PI) of one of the innovative AI Institutes funded by the National Science Foundation, the ICICLE AI Institute. I’m also carrying out research and other activities as a member of the Cybershuttle project and the Midwest (read BigTen!) Research Computing and Data Consortium (MWRCD)

I am singularly proud to have contributed to better outcomes for students, faculty, and research professionals through workforce development, community building, and broadening participation in computing in transdisciplinary settings.

I am surrounded by a spouse of many, many years, a cat, two grown sons and their lovely spouses and everyone else in our broad family-through-choice.