Craig Stewart

Executive Director

In addition to his role as Executive Director for Pervasive Technology Institute, Dr. Craig A. Stewart serves as Associate Dean and Associate Vice President for Research Technologies at Indiana University. He is principal investigator for NSF grants to Indiana University for the Data Capacitor Project and IU's participation as a resource provider in the NSF-funded TeraGrid. Stewart has worked in computing at Indiana University since 1985, and is responsible for IU's activities in high performance computing, advanced storage, advanced visualization, and IT infrastructure for the life sciences. 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.

Therese Miller

Chief Operations Officer

Therese Miller brings nearly thirty years of experience in higher education financial management and personnel administration to her role as Chief Operations Officer for Pervasive Technology Institute. Miller has extensive experience in issues related to the management of grants, including compliance, reporting, and proposal budgeting and submission. Prior to being named Operations Manager of Pervasive Technology Labs in 2001, Miller served for over two decades as an accounting manager in the IU Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and its predecessors. In her current role as Chief Operations Officer for the Institute, Miller manages a diverse team of staff responsible for project and grant management, external relations, outreach and Web content development, as well as general finance and Institute administration.

Fred Cate

Director, Center fro Applied Cybersecurity Research

Distinguished Professor and C.  Ben Dutton Professor of Law

Adjunct Professor of Informatics of Computing

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

Director, Digital Science Center,

Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing

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

Geoffrey Fox is a professor and distinguished scientist, nationally renowned for his work in the development and application of parallel computers. He currently serves as Director of the Digital Science Center and has served as Director of the Community Grids Lab at Indiana University since 2002.  Fox holds faculty appointments in computer science and physics and serves as Chair of the Department of Informatics within the IU School of Informatics.

Prior to coming to IU, Fox was director of the Computational and Information Science Laboratory at Florida State University. He was also the director of the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University from 1990-2000. His research has led to two commercial spinoffs-WebWisdom.com and Anabas Inc.

Fox has worked with many distinguished scientists in his career; while at CalTech he worked with Nobel Prize winner in physics, Richard Feynman.

Fox’s current projects include research on parallelism and multi-core chips, eScience, cloud computing, and grids to support polar science and life sciences research.

email: gcf@indiana.edu

Beth A. Plale

Director, Data to Insight Center

Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing

Director, Center fo Data and Search Informatics

Professor Beth Plale serves as Director of the Data to Insight Center and the Center for Data and Search Informatics for Pervasive Technology Institute. She is also the Associate Dean of Research for the IU School of Informatics and an associate 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 including the large NSF funded LEAD project in cyberinfrastructure for mesoscale meteorology forecasting. 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.

Daphne Siefert-Herron

Manager of Strategic Initiatives

Daphne Siefert-Herron has more than a decade of experience in the nonprofit and higher education sectors. She has experience in publicity, external and media relations, technology outreach, event planning, and grant proposal preparation. She has worked as a writer on topics related to high performance computing, technology, and science for both technical and lay audiences. Prior to coming to Indiana University in 2002, Siefert-Herron held positions at the National Safety Council and an Indianapolis-based marketing logistics company. Siefert-Herron holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Indiana University and a graduate certificate in Nonprofit Management from the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs.