Zachary Ives is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an Associated Faculty Member of the Penn Center for Bioinformatics. He received his B.S. from Sonoma State University and his PhD from the University of Washington. His research interests include data integration, data sharing among autonomous and heterogeneous systems, heterogeneous sensor networks, and information provenance and authoritativeness. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, a former member of the DARPA Computer Science Study Panel, and a current member of DARPA's Information Science and Technology advisory panel. He has been a co-program chair for the XML Symposium (2006) and New Trends in Information Integration (2008, 2010) workshops. He is the recipient of the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching. He serves as the undergraduate curriculum chair for Penn's new Singh Program in Market and Social Systems Engineering.