Rebecca Boyles is the Deputy Director of RENCI. In this role, she oversees the Research Division and contributes to RENCI’s overall strategic vision and business development. Her research focus lies in developing fit-for-purpose solutions that enable researchers to use data for the public good. Her work supports Findable, Assessable, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) data principles, while bridging the research and information technology gap by applying a data ecosystem perspective that enables researchers to maximize the value of their data assets.
She is MPI for the NHLBI BioData Catalyst Coordinating Center, which oversees the architecture and FAIR data framework for the cross-cloud, advanced cyberinfrastructure which brings together genomics workflows, community tools, secure workspaces, and data management functions into an unified ecosystem. She formerly served as MPI for the NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-term® Initiative (NIH HEAL Initiative®) HEAL Data Stewardship Group, which provides consultations and resources to HEAL investigators to facilitate making their data FAIR for collaborative data sharing and analysis. Additionally, she works with environmental health science community-supported common vocabularies and ontologies for describing data and works to make data more valuable through contributions to the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH).
She previously served as the Founding Director of the Center for Data Modernization Solutions at RTI International. Prior to her work at RTI, she served as a data scientist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), where she clarified the strategic vision for the environmental health science data ecosystem, leveraging existing data assets to respond to timely public health issues.
