Suzie Allard is Chancellor's Professor & Board of Visitors' Professor at The University of Tennessee in the School of Information Sciences. She is also Associate Dean for Research for the College of Communication and Information (CCI) and Director of the CCI Research & Innovation Center. Allard's research on knowledge creation and disruption especially focuses on scientific data and how scientists and engineers use and communicate information. Current projects center on science data, interdisciplinary scientific work teams (particularly in terms of data sharing), scientific cyberinfrastructure, and science disinformation. Allard is or has been PI or Co-PI on grants funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Libraries Services, the Department of Energy Office of Science, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, IEEE and others. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. Allard has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals, spoken at venues around the world and published several book chapters. Allard received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from California State University at Northridge, an MS in library and information sciences, and a PhD in communication from the University of Kentucky. Before being in academe, Allard was the vice president of Research Frontiers Corporation which provided creative consultation services to the entertainment industry.