Ilkay Altintas

Dr. Ilkay Altintas serves as Chief Data Science Officer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego, where she has established herself as a leading innovator in scientific workflows and data science since 2001. After earning her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam focusing on workflow-driven collaborative science, she founded the Workflows for Data Science Center of Excellence and has led numerous cross-disciplinary projects funded by NSF, DOE, NIH, and the Moore Foundation. Her contributions include co-initiating the open-source Kepler Scientific Workflow System and developing the Biomedical Big Data Training Collaborative platform. Her research impact spans scientific workflows, provenance, distributed computing, and software modeling, earning her the SDSC Pi Person of the Year award in 2014 and the IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing for Early Career Researchers in 2015. As Division Director for Cyberinfrastructure Research, Education, and Development, she oversees numerous computational data science initiatives while serving as a founding faculty fellow at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and maintaining active research collaborations across multiple scientific domains