Using AI to Adopt the Blueprint Overview (Blueprint Series)

Christine Kirkpatrick, Ph.D.

Division Director - Research Data Services, SDSC

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 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 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.