NSF CI Compass is pleased to invite you to attend the next installment in our webinar series: "The National Data Platform as an Ecosystem to Amplify the Impact of Facilities," featuring İlkay Altıntaş, chief data science officer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego.
This webinar will take place on Monday, September 22, 2025, at 11 a.m. PT / Noon MT / 1 p.m. CT / 2 p.m. ET.
Abstract:
The National Data Platform (NDP) is a novel digital ecosystem designed to make it easier for people to find, use, and share scientific data through an AI-ready service architecture. NDP implements a federated ecosystem through deployment of composable data services to accelerate data-driven, AI-enabled science. It facilitates the discovery and use of data and computing resources by researchers, educators and students, providing an intuitive user experience that amplifies the reach, use and impact of data and computing resources, NDP offers major facilities FAIR federated catalogs to make facility datasets more findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable, increasing visibility and reducing duplication. In addition, through collaborative workspaces, NDP can connect such facility catalogs and datasets with cloud and HPC resources as part of science workflows,to lower technical barriers and extend facility capabilities to broader research and education communities. By standardizing data access, enabling reproducible science, and supporting cross-facility integration, NDP helps facilities maximize their scientific return on investment, broaden participation, and accelerate innovation across domains.
Bio:
İlkay Altıntaş is the Chief Data Science Officer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, and a Founding Faculty Fellow of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute within the School of Computing, Information, and Data Science. Specializing in scientific workflows and data systems, she leads collaborative teams to deliver impactful results and sustainable solutions by making computational data science and AI more reusable, programmable, scalable, accessible, and reproducible. She is the Founding Director of the Societal Computing and Innovation Lab, which focuses on novel approaches to creating breakthrough technological innovations that address complex societal challenges. She is also the Founder of the WIFIRE Program for wildland fire innovations and the Principal Investigator of the NSF National Data Platform, the Wildfire Science and Technology Commons, and other diverse grants that advance scalable computing, AI, and data systems across the digital continuum from edge to HPC. Her honors include the 2015 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing for Early Career Researchers and the 2017 ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award. She serves on the elected Board of Governors for the IEEE Computer Society and was appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to the Wildfire Technology Research and Development Review Advisory Board. Ilkay received her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam.
