Juliana Freire

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Juliana Freire
Alma mater Stony Brook University
Known forCo-developer of VisTrails
Spouse(s) Claudio Silva
Awards ACM Fellow
Scientific career
Fields data management
scientific visualization
data science
Institutions Bell Laboratories
Oregon Health & Science University
University of Utah
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
New York University
Thesis Scheduling Strategies for Evaluation of Recursive Queries over Memory and Disk-Resident Data (1997)
Doctoral advisor David S. Warren

Juliana Freire de Lima e Silva is a Brazilian computer scientist who works as a professor of computer science and engineering at the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering. [1] She is known for her research in information visualization, data provenance, and computerized assistance for scientific reproducibility. [2]

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Education and career

Freire did her undergraduate studies at the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil, and earned her doctorate from Stony Brook University. Prior to joining NYU-Poly in 2011, she was a researcher at Bell Laboratories, and a faculty member at the Oregon Health & Science University and the University of Utah. [1]

Freire was the program co-chair of the WWW2010 conference. [3]

Research

Freire's research projects include the VisTrails scientific workflow management system, [4] [5] and the DeepPeep search engine for web database content. [6]

Recognition

In 2014, Freire was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to provenance management research and technology, and computational reproducibility." [2] [4] She was named to the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [7]

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References

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  2. 1 2 ACM Fellow award citation: Juliana Freire, Association for Computing Machinery, 2014, retrieved 2015-06-12.
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