Christine Kirkpatrick, M.A.S.
Roles
- Division Director - Research Data Services, SDSC
- Head - GO FAIR US
- Secretary General - CODATA
- Principal Investigator - FAIR in ML, AI Readiness & Reproducibility RCN
- Principal Investigator - NIAID Data Landscaping and FAIRification
- Principal Investigator - US RAiD Pilot
- Co-Chair - U.S. National Committee for CODATA for the National Academics of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
- Member - The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on their Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI)
Biography
Christine Kirkpatrick leads the San Diego Supercomputer Center’s (SDSC) Research Data Services division, which manages large-scale infrastructure, networking, and services for research projects of regional and national scope. Her research is in data-centric AI, working at the intersection of ML and FAIR, with a focus on making AI more efficient to save on power consumption and 'time to science'. Kirkpatrick serves as PI of the NSF-funded FAIR in ML, AI Readiness & Reproducibility RCN which aims to advance best practices in AL, enhance reproducibility, and explore key gaps in data-centric AI research. Kirkpatrick also leads the NIAID Data Landscaping and FAIRification project which seeks to benefit biomedical researchers and the broader community in generating and analyzing data related to infectious, allergic, and immunological conditions, the project is guided by the FAIR principles and provides strategies to improve metadata quality across NIAID and NIH-supported data repositories and resources. Kirkpatrick founded the GO FAIR US Office, is on the Executive Committee for the Open Storage Network, and is Co-PI of the NSF-funded GRANDE-U: Groundwater Resilience Assessment through iNtegrated Data Exploration, a project focused on groundwater research in the Baltic states. Christine serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) to improve the stewardship, policy and use of digital data and information for science and the broader society. She serves as the Secretary General of the International Science Council's Committee on Data (CODATA), co-Chairs the FAIR Digital Object Forum, is on the Advisory Board for the Helmholtz Federated IT Services (HIFIS), and co-Chairs the National Academies of Sciences’ U.S. National Committee for the Committee on Data. In each of her roles, Christine brings a commitment to broadening the STEM pipeline, focusing on early career and representation. Christine was a founding member of the University of California (UC) Electronic Accessibility Leadership Team and a co-author of the UC Accessibility Policy.
Expertise
- Research Data Management
- FAIR and Open Science Principles/FAIR Digital Objects
- Infrastructure
- Cloud and Web-enabled Architectures
Current Projects
- NIAID Data Landscaping and FAIRification - Guidance on approaches to enhance the quality of metadata using the FAIR principles
- US RAiD Pilot (Research Activity Identifier) - Funded by NSF, establishes a US RAiD registration infrastructure API available to US organizations and generating related user documentation
- Open Storage Network - Cyberinfrastructure service to address specific data storage, transfer, sharing, and access, challenges
- GO FAIR US - Disseminates, supports and coordinates the recommendations and activities related to the adoption of the GO FAIR implementation networks in the U.S.
- FAIR Digital Objects Forum - Organizing the International FAIR Digital Objects (FDO) Community and spurring research, tools, and services that support FDOs
- FAIR in Machine Learning, AI Readiness, AI Reproducibility (FARR) - NSF-funded Research Coordination Network that brings together computer, information scientists, cyberinfrastructure, and research data communities
- Metabolomics Workbench - An NIH-funded national data repository for metabolomics data
- Global Center for Water Energy Food Health Nexus (GC3WEFH) - An NIH-funded project to examine the relationship and potential solutions for prevention and treatment for human health that relate to water, energy, and food
- National Science Data Fabric - An NSF-funded project to connect an open network of institutions by deploying a federated data fabric testbed configurable for individual and shared scientific use
- Democratized Cyberinfrastructure for Open Discovery to Enable Research (DeCODER) - An NSF-funded CSSI award to enable cross-domain discovery of and access to scientific data and research tools
- NAIRR Pilot - Serving on the NAIRR Pilot’s Operations Team. Through the Allocations working group, ensures smooth review and allocation of AI resources for US scientists