Jane Payumo, PhD, is the Director of Research Evaluation & Data Analytics at Michigan State University’s AgBioResearch, where she leads institution-wide systems for monitoring, evaluation, and data-driven decision support. Her work focuses on assessing research excellence, mapping collaboration networks, and developing analytics that strengthen interdisciplinary and cross-institutional partnerships. She helps advance team science through evidence-based evaluation frameworks, systems, and tools that enable organizations to understand, support, and scale collaborative research for greater global impact.