Juliana Freire wins NSF Career Award

Juliana Freire, an assistant professor in the School of Computing, was recently awarded a 5-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation Career award to create computational infrastructure that can capture and manage the provenance of scientific artifacts, including data products (e.g., visualizations), simulation, and analysis workflows. Dr. Freire intends to develop algorithms to help scientists manage large quantities of scientific data and workflows, and to query their provenance.

To analyze and understand scientific data, complex computational processes (workflows) must be assembled, often requiring the combination of loosely coupled resources, specialized libraries, and web services. The goal of Dr. Freire's project is to produce new algorithms and techniques for exploring and re-using useful knowledge embedded in workflow specifications and in the provenance of the data that scientists manipulate.

The Career award is one of the National Science Foundation's highest honors for young faculty members, and it recognizes and supports the early career activities of those teachers and scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the future.