Christine Kirkpatrick

Biography

Christine Kirkpatrick serves as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee at ICSI. She leads the San Diego Supercomputer Center’s Research Data Services division, which manages large-scale infrastructure, networking, and services for research projects of regional and national scope. Kirkpatrick serves as principal investigator (PI) of the FAIR in ML, AI Readiness & Reproducibility RCN which focuses on promoting better practices for AI, improving reproducibility, and exploring research gaps in data-centric AI. In addition, she founded the GO FAIR US Office, is on the Executive Committee for theOpen 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, and is a founder of the Transboundary Groundwater Resiliency (TGR) network. 

Kirkpatrick serves as the Secretary General of the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and co-Chairs the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s US National Committee on CODATA. She is on the Advisory Board for the Helmholtz Federated IT Services (HIFIS), co-chairs the FAIR Digital Object Forum.

Publications

Selected Leadership Activities

• Center Affiliate, National Supercomputing Center for Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
• Co-Chair, U.S. National Committee for the Committee on Data, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
• Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA) Board
• Helmholtz Federated IT Services (HIFIS), International Advisory Board
  iHARP External Advisory Board, NSF HDR Institute for Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Region Advisory Board
• Coastline College Technology Advisory Board
• CODATA-RDA Schools of Research Data Science Advisory Board