İlkay Altıntaş (SDSC, UC San Diego) is a research scientist at the University of California San Diego, the Chief Data Science Officer of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and a Founding Fellow of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute within the School of Computing, Information, and Data Science. Specializing in scientific workflows, scalable computing and data systems, her research enables 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 scientific and societal challenges. Her work has been applied to many domains including bioinformatics, geoinformatics, high-energy physics, material science, multi-scale biomedical science, smart cities, and smart manufacturing. 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.
