Timothy McPhillips

Timothy McPhillips is a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Illinois and an affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He holds a PhD in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. His research focuses on emerging methods for harnessing scientific knowledge, ensuring research transparency, and revealing the provenance of scientific results. Key contributions include developing tools like YesWorkflow for workflow provenance recovery and CPR for comprehensible provenance records.

His work emphasizes reproducibility, data lineage tracking, and scientific workflow design. McPhillips has contributed to projects such as AutoDrug for automated crystallography workflows and the Whole Tale platform for reproducible research. He has authored numerous publications on provenance management, workflow execution, and data transparency across disciplines like bioinformatics and paleoclimate studies.

McPhillips' research bridges computational methods and scientific practice, aiming to enhance trustworthiness in research outcomes through systematic provenance tracking and workflow automation.