Ayoung Yoon is an Associate Professor at Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Department of Library and Information Science, Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI). She was an RDA/US data share fellow for 2016-2017. She holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MSI from the University of Michigan. She is also a founding member of Data to Action Lab at Luddy Indianapolis (http://data.soic.iupui.edu/) and serves as a director during the founding year, 2018-2019. Her research areas include open data, community data, data curation, and data sharing/reuse. She is particularly interested in building community capacity for constructing effective infrastructure for data sharing and reuse through proper curation support. Currently she is conducting several research projects focusing on communities’ needs of data sharing, reuse, and curation.