| Juliana Freire | |
| Fields: | data management scientific visualization data science |
| Workplaces: | Bell Laboratories Oregon Health & Science University University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute New York University |
| Alma Mater: | Stony Brook University |
| Thesis Title: | Scheduling Strategies for Evaluation of Recursive Queries over Memory and Disk-Resident Data |
| Thesis Year: | 1997 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | David S. Warren |
| Awards: | ACM Fellow |
| Spouse: | Claudio Silva |
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.[1] She is known for her research in information visualization, data provenance, and computerized assistance for scientific reproducibility.[2]
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]
Freire's research projects include the VisTrails scientific workflow management system,[4] and the DeepPeep search engine for web database content.[5]
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] [6] She was named to the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.