Beth A. Plale is Michael A. and Laurie Burns McRobbie Bicentennial Professor of Computer Engineering at Indiana University.
In 1998 she earned her Ph.D. from State University of New York Binghamton, jointly supervised by Sudhir Aggarwal and Karsten Schwan.
[2] In 2001, she moved to Indiana University as a tenure track professor.
[2][6] In 2004, Plale received an early career award from the United States Department of Energy.
[7] In 2006, Plale was named a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery.