VICTORIA STODDEN is an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with affiliate appointments in the School of Law, the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Statistics, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and the National Center for SuperComputing Applications. She completed both her PhD in statistics and her law degree at Stanford University.
Stodden is an affiliate scholar with the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. She is also a faculty affiliate of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS).
She is the founder of the open source platform ResearchCompendia.org, designed as a pilot project to study the verification of code and data associated with published results, and enable independent and public cloud-based validation of methods and findings. She is also a co-founder of RunMyCode.org, an open platform connecting data and code to published articles, and creator and curator of SparseLab, a collaborative platform for reproducible computational research in underdetermined systems.
Stodden is a member of the Senate IT Committee at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She co-chairs the National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee for CyberInfrastructure, and is a member of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Advisory Committee. She is also a member of the National Institutes for Health's PubMed Central National Advisory Committee.