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 CearĂ¡ 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][5] and the DeepPeep search engine for web database content.[6]
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]