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Committee Biographical Information

DAVID S. C. CHU, Chair, served as president of the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) 2009-2020. IDA is a nonprofit corporation operating in the public interest. Its three federally funded research and development centers provide objective analyses of national security issues and related national challenges, particularly those requiring extraordinary scientific and technical expertise. Dr. Chu served in the Department of Defense as Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness from 2001 to 2009 and earlier as Assistant Secretary of Defense and Director for Program Analysis and Evaluation from 1981 to 1993. From 1978 to 1981, he was the Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office for National Security and International Affairs. Dr. Chu served in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1970. He was an economist with the RAND Corporation from 1970 to 1978, director of RAND’s Washington Office from 1994 to 1998, and vice president for its Army Research Division from 1998 to 2001. He earned his doctorate in economics, as well as a bachelor of arts in economics and mathematics, from Yale University. Dr. Chu is a member of the Defense Science Board and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He is a recipient of the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service with Gold Palm, the Department of Veterans Affairs Meritorious Service Award, the Department of the Army Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Department of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award, and the National Academy of Public Administration’s National Public Service Award.

ILKAY ALTINTAS is the chief data science officer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she is also the founder and director for the Workflows for Data Science Center of Excellence and a fellow of the Halicioglu Data Science Institute. In her various roles and projects, she leads collaborative multidisciplinary teams with a research objective to deliver impactful results through making computational data science work more reusable, programmable, scalable, and reproducible. Since joining SDSC in 2001, she has been a principal investigator and a technical leader in a wide range of cross-disciplinary projects. Her work has been applied to many scientific and societal domains including bioinformatics, geoinformatics, high-energy physics, multiscale biomedical science, smart cities, and smart manufacturing. She is a co-initiator of the popular open-source Kepler Scientific Workflow System and the co-author of publications related to computational data science at the intersection of workflows, provenance, distributed computing, big data, reproducibility, and software modeling in many different application areas. Among the awards she has received are the 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing for Early Career Researchers and the 2017 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing’s Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award.

GOLAM SAYEED CHOUDHURY is the associate dean for research data management and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. Choudhury is also a member of the executive committee for the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science based at Johns Hopkins. Choudhury is a President Obama appointee to the National Museum and Library Services Board. He was a member of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information and the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. He has testified for the Research Subcommittee of the Congressional Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. He was a member of the board of the National Information Standards Organization, OpenAIRE2020, DuraSpace, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Council, Digital Library Federation advisory committee, Library of Congress National Digital Stewardship Alliance Coordinating Committee, Federation of Earth Scientists Information Partnership Executive Committee, and the Project MUSE Advisory Board. Choudhury was a member of the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research Data Curation Working Group. He has been a Senior Presidential Fellow with the Council on Library and Information Resources, a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins, and a research fellow at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the recipient of the 2012 Online Computer Library Center, Incorporated/Library and Information Technology Association Kilgour Award. Choudhury has served as principal investigator for projects funded through the National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Microsoft Research, and a Maryland-based venture capital group. He is the product owner for the Data Conservancy, which focuses on the development of data curation infrastructure, and the Public Access Submission System, which supports simultaneous submission of articles to PubMed Central and institutional repositories. He has oversight for data curation research and development and data archive implementation at the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. Choudhury has published articles in journals such as the International Journal of Digital Curation, D-Lib, the Journal of Digital Information, First Monday, and Library Trends. He has served on committees for the Digital Curation Conference, Open Repositories, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, and Web-Wise. He has presented at various conferences including EDUCAUSE, the Coalition for Networked Information, Jisc-Coalition for Networked Information, Digital Library Federation, American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, and international venues including the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, the Kanazawa Information Technology Roundtable, eResearch Australasia, the North America-China Conference, eResearch New Zealand, and the Arabian-Gulf Chapter of the Special Libraries Conference.

MARGARET LEVENSTEIN is director of ICPSR; research professor at the Institute for Social Research and the School of Information; and adjunct professor of business economics and public policy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. She has taught economics at the University of Michigan since 1990. She serves as co-executive director of the Michigan Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) and co-chair of the Executive Committee of the FSRDC national network. She is the associate chair of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession and past president of the Business History Conference. She is principal investigator of CenHRS, a Sloan Foundation–funded project building an enhancement to the Health and Retirement Study based on linkages to administrative and survey data on Health and Retirement Study employers and co-workers. She is principal investigator of a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project to establish a repository of linked data and data linkage algorithms at ICPSR; a Sloan and NSF-funded effort to establish a Researcher Passport using open badges for credentialed, trusted researchers to access restricted data; and an NSF-funded project conducting experiments to encourage citizen-scientists to improve research metadata. She received a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University and a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of numerous studies on competition and collusion, the development of information systems, and using “organic” data to improve social and economic measurement.

CLIFFORD LYNCH has been the executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the intelligent uses of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual life. CNI’s wide-ranging agenda includes work in digital preservation, data intensive scholarship, teaching, learning and technology, and infrastructure and standards development. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, including the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of Information. He is both a past president and recipient of the Award of Merit of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the ACM, and the National Information Standards Organization. He served as co-chair of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information from 2011 to 2016, and he is active on numerous advisory boards and visiting committees. His work has been recognized by the American Library Association’s Lippincott Award, the EDUCAUSE Leadership Award in Public Policy and Practice, and the American Society for Engineering Education’s Homer Bernhardt Award.

DAVID MAIER is Maseeh Professor of Emerging Technologies at Portland State University. Prior to his current position, he was on the faculty at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and Oregon Graduate Institute. He has spent extended visits with Inria, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Microsoft Research, and the National University of Singapore. He is the author of books on relational databases, logic programming, and object-oriented databases, as well as papers on database theory, object-oriented technology, scientific databases, and dataspace management. He is a recognized expert on the challenges of large-scale data in the sciences. He received an NSF Young Investigator Award in 1984 and was awarded the 1997 ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data’s Innovations Award for his contributions in objects and databases. He is also an ACM Fellow and IEEE Senior Member. He holds a dual B.A. in mathematics and in computer science from the University of Oregon (Honors College, 1974) and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University (1978).

CHARLES MANSKI has been Board of Trustees Professor in Economics at Northwestern University since 1997. He previously was a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1983-1998), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1979-1983), and Carnegie Mellon University (1973-1980). He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1970 and 1973, respectively. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (2006) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2018). Manski’s research spans econometrics, judgment and decision, and analysis of public policy. He is author of Public Policy in an Uncertain World (Harvard, 2013), Identification for Prediction and Decision (Harvard, 2007), Social Choice with Partial Knowledge of Treatment Response (Princeton, 2005), Partial Identification of Probability Distributions (Springer, 2003), Identification Problems in the Social Sciences (Harvard, 1995), and Analog Estimation Methods in Econometrics (Chapman and Hall, 1988); co-author of College Choice in America (Harvard, 1983); and co-editor of Evaluating Welfare and Training Programs (Harvard, 1992) and Structural Analysis of Discrete Data with Econometric Applications (MIT, 1981). He has served as director of the Institute for Research on Poverty (1988-1991), chair of the Board of Overseers of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1994-1998), and chair of the National Research Council Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs (1998-2001). Editorial service includes terms as editor of the Journal of Human Resources (1991-1994), co-editor of the Econometric Society Monograph Series (1983-1988), member of the editorial board of the Annual Review of Economics (2007-2013), member of the Report Review Committee of the National Research Council (2010-2018), and associate editor of the Annals of Applied Statistics (2006-2010), Econometrica (1980-1988), Journal of Economic Perspectives (1986-1989), Journal of the American Statistical Association (1983-1985, 2002-2004), and Transportation Science (1978-1984). Manski is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the American Statistical Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association, and corresponding fellow of the British Academy.

MARYANN MARTONE is a professor emerita at UCSD but still maintains an active laboratory and currently serves as the chair of the University of California Academic Senate Committee on Academic Computing and Communications. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College in biological psychology and ancient Greek and her Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCSD. She started her career as a neuroanatomist, specializing in light and electron microscopy, but her main research for the past 15 years focused on informatics for neuroscience (i.e., neuroinformatics). She led the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF), a national project to establish a uniform resource description framework for neuroscience, and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Information Network (dkNET), a portal for connecting researchers in digestive, kidney, and metabolic disease to data, tools, and materials. She just completed 5 years as editor-in-chief of Brain and Behavior, an open-access journal, and has just launched a new journal as editor-in-chief, NeuroCommons, with BMC. Dr. Martone is past president of FORCE11, an organization dedicated to advancing scholarly communication and e-scholarship. She completed 2 years as the chair of the Council on Training, Science, and Infrastructure for the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility and is now the chair of the Governing Board. Since retiring, she served as the director of biological sciences for Hypothesis, a technology nonprofit developing an open annotation layer for the web (2015-2018), and founded SciCrunch, a technology start-up based on technologies developed by NIF and dkNET.

ALEXA T. McCRAY is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She conducts research on knowledge representation and discovery, with a special focus on the significant problems that persist in the curation, dissemination, and exchange of scientific and clinical information in biomedicine and health. McCray is the former director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, a research division of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). While at NIH, she directed the design and development of a number of national information resources, including ClinicalTrials.gov. Before joining NIH, she was on the research staff of IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. She received her Ph.D. from Georgetown University and for 3 years was on the faculty there. She conducted predoctoral research at MIT. McCray joined Harvard Medical School in 2005, where she was founding co-director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and associate director of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. McCray was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2001. She is chair of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), an honorary fellow of the International Medical Informatics Association, and a founding fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. She is a past president of ACMI and a past member of the boards of both the American Medical Informatics Association and the International Medical Informatics Association. She is a former editor-in-chief of Methods of Information in Medicine, and she is a past member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. She chaired the 2018 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus study entitled Open Science by Design: Realizing a Vision for 21st Century Research.

MICHELLE MEYER is an assistant professor and associate director, research ethics, in the Center for Translational Bioethics and Health Care Policy at Geisinger, a large, integrated health system in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, where she chairs the Institutional Review Board (IRB) Leadership Committee and directs the Research Ethics Advice and Consultation Service. She is also faculty co-director of Geisinger’s Behavioral Insights Team (a.k.a. “nudge unit”) in Geisinger’s Steele Institute for Health Innovation. Her empirical and normative research focuses on judgment and decision making by patients, clinicians, research participants, and IRBs that has implications for law, ethics, and policy. She has served on the advisory board of the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium; the board of directors of the Open Humans Foundation (formerly PersonalGenomes.org); the Ethics and Compliance Advisory Board of PatientsLikeMe; the American Psychological Association’s Commission on Ethics Processes; the ClinGen Working Group on Complex Diseases; a National Academy of Medicine/Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute working group on generating stakeholder support and demand for health data sharing, linkage, and use; and a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency–funded technical exchange on complex social systems. She developed a commissioned white paper addressing ethical issues raised by plans for developing a

new data-sharing institute. In most of those roles, she has focused on consent; data privacy; and data access and use, especially with respect to genomic data. Immediately before joining the faculty at Geisinger, Meyer was an assistant professor and director of bioethics policy in the Clarkson University-Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine Bioethics Program and adjunct faculty at Albany Law School. Previously, she was an academic fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at The Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities; and a research fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She earned a Ph.D. in religious studies, with a focus on practical ethics, from the University of Virginia under the supervision of James F. Childress and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, she clerked for Judge Stanley Marcus of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College.

WILLIAM STEAD is chief strategy officer for Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). In this capacity, he facilitates structured decision making to achieve strategic goals and concept development to nurture system innovation. Dr. Stead received his B.A., M.D., and residency training in internal medicine and nephrology from Duke University. He remained on Duke’s faculty in nephrology as the physician in the physician-engineer partnership that developed The Medical Record, one of the first practical electronic medical record systems. He also helped Duke build one of the first patient-centered hospital information systems (IBM’s PCS/ADS). He came to VUMC in 1991 and holds appointments as the McKesson Foundation Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Medicine. For two decades, he guided development of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and operational units providing information infrastructure to support health care, education, and research programs of the Medical Center. He aligned organizational structure, informatics architecture, and change management to bring cutting-edge research in decision support, visualization, natural language processing, data mining, and data privacy into clinical practice. His current focus is on system-based care, learning and research leading toward personalized medicine, and population health management. Dr. Stead is a founding fellow of both the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Institute for Engineering in Biology and Medicine. He served as founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. His awards include the Collen Award for Excellence in Medical Informatics and the Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics. Most recently, the American Medical Informatics Association named the Award for Thought Leadership in Informatics in his honor. He served as president of the American College of Medical Informatics, chairman of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, presidential appointee to the Commission on Systemic Interoperability, chair of the National Research Council Committee on Engaging the Computer Science Research Community in Health Care Informatics, and co-chair of the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Recommended Social and Behavioral Domains and Measures for Electronic Health Records. He chairs the National Committee for Vital and Health Statistics of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Technical Advisory Committee of the Center for Medical Interoperability. He is a member of the Council of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Medical Association’s Journal Oversight Committee. In addition to his academic and advisory responsibilities, Dr. Stead is a director of HealthStream.

LARS VILHUBER is presently on the faculty of the Department of Economics at Cornell University, executive director of the ILR School’s Labor Dynamics Institute, a senior research associate at the ILR School at Cornell University, Ithaca, and affiliated with the U.S. Census Bureau (Center for Economic Studies). He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, having previously studied economics at the Universität Bonn, Germany, and Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany. He has worked in both academic and government research positions and continues to consult and collaborate with government and statistical agencies in Canada, the United States, and Europe. His research interests lie in the dynamics of the labor market: working with highly detailed longitudinally linked data, he has analyzed the effects and causes of mass layoffs, worker mobility, and the interaction between housing and the local labor market. Over the years, he has also gained extensive expertise on the data needs of economists and other social scientists, having been involved in the creation and maintenance of several data systems designed with analysis, publication, replicability, and maintenance of large-scale code bases

in mind. His research in statistical disclosure limitation issues is a direct consequence of his profound interest in making data available in a multitude of formats to the broadest possible audience. His knowledge about various data enclave systems comes from both personal experience and the desire to improve the experience of others. He is data editor of the American Economic Association and managing editor of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality; chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Centre d’accès sécurisé aux données in France; and senior advisor of the New York FSRDCs in the United States.