Some News (and some not so new news )

• I am teaching Big Data in Spring 2017: http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/BigData2017
• My first paper in the The Journal of Open Source Software: . ReproZip: The Reproducibility Packer.
• Heading to Korea for the Computing in the 21st Century 2016
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Our paper "Anonymizing NYC Taxi Data: Does It Matter?" received the Best-Paper honorable mention at the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), 2016.
• To learn more about computational reproducibility and our ongoing efforts with University of Washington and Berkeley within the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments, see http://www.reproduciblescience.org
• ReproZip will be demonstrated at SIGMOD 2016. Fork the new, improved version of ReproZip from: https://github.com/ViDA-NYU/reprozip. And to see how easy it is to make your experiment reproducible with ReproZip, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zLPuwCHXo0
• I am teaching Big Data in Spring 2016 at the Center for Data Science: http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/BigData2016
• I am very honored to have been named an: ACM Fellow
• Memex on Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/04/10/darpa-memex-search-going-open-source-check-it-out ; http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2014/02/24/could-the-u-s-militarys-new-search-engine-replace-google
• Memex on 60 minutes: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-search-engine-exposes-the-dark-web
• I gave a keynote at the Brazilian Database Conference on Exploring Big Urban Data. Here are the slides: http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/talks/2014-sbbd-keynote-pub.pdf
• Our group had 8 papers accepted to IEEE VIS 2014! Here's the press release
• BirdVis is now available on github: https://github.com/ViDA-NYU/birdvis
• Check out noWorkflow, a new system that captures provenance of Python scripts and automatically generates a reproducible package: https://github.com/gems-uff/noworkflow
• Together with Bill Howe (UW, organizer), Mike Franklin (UC Berkeley), Jim Frew (UC Santa Barbara) and Tim Kraska (Brown), I participated in panel on teaching data science which took place at ACM SIGMOD 2014. We considered the question of whether introductory courses in databases should be replaced with introductory courses in data science, retaining some of the same critical database material on the relational models and languages, query processing, and scalable systems, but augmenting it with material in statistics, machine learning, and visualization. Somewhat surprisingly, most of the crowd was amenable to this pitch! For more information, see http://escience.washington.edu/blog/teaching-data-science-instead-databases
• In collaboration with the University of Washington and Berkeley, and under the sponsorship of the Moore and Sloan foundations, we are working on a new initiative to 'harness the potential of data scientists and big data'. For more information, see:
  NYU announcement
  NYTimes article
• If you want to learn about taxis in New York City and TaxiVis, a system that we have developed to analyze the spatio-temporal aspects of the taxi data, check our paper that appeared at TVCG 2013: http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/pub/taxivis-tvcg2013.pdf
  This video shows the tool in action: http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/videos/taxivis-tvcg2013.mp4
• Harnessing the power of big data is no small feat
• Together with Raghu Ramakrishnan (Microsoft) , Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) , and Claudio Silva (NYU CUSP) , I participated in a panel on The Many Faces of Big Data, held at the German Center for Research and Innovation, United Nations, New York.
• Check out the new NYU Center for Data Science: http://cds.nyu.edu
• To aid the process of creating reproducible experiments, we have developed ReproZip, a tool that automatically captures the provenance of existing experiments and packs all the components necessary to reproduce the results in different environments. The system was demonstrated at SIGMOD 2013 , in New York City and at the Beyond the PDF 2 Conference , in Amsterdam. The first public release of the tool is planned for Spring 2013.
  For more information about our activities around reproducibility in science, see: http://www.reproduciblescience.org .
• Check out the September issue of the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin: Data Management beyond Database Systems. It contains a collection of articles which highlight the importance of cross-domain synergies and the need to go beyond traditional database systems and to make database technology more accessible---both easier to use for end-users and easier to integrate with other systems.
• Check out the NYC Media Lab!
• After sever great years at the University of Utah, I have moved from beautiful Salt Lake City to New York City.
• We finally have a paper that describes the guts of VisTrails in The Architecture of Open Source Applications . You can purchase this book from http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-architecture-of-open-source-applications/15663458 --- all proceeds from the sales will go to Amnesty International .
• Join us at the 3rd USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP '11)
• VisTrails 1.6.1 just released! You can download it from http://www.vistrails.org/index.php/Downloads . For details on new features and bug fixes, see the release notes.
• Our paper on the use of provenance (and VisTrails) for teaching received the Best-Paper award at the Eurographics Educator program.
• ParaView now includes the VisTrails Provenance Plugin! For more details see the announcement on the Kitware website: ParaView 3.6.2 Now Available.
• Conquering the Digital Data Overload: Juliana Freire Profiled on Live Science
• Check out our IEEE Vis 2009 tutorial on Provenance-Enabled Data Exploration and Visualization
• If you'd like to learn how workflows and provenance can be used to automate the creation of customized applications/mashups, check out our paper in IEEE Vis 2009: VisMashup: Streamlining the Creation of Custom Visualization Applications, by Emanuele Santos, Lauro Lins, James Ahrens, Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva.
• DeepPeep has been mentioned in a recent article by Greg Goth in the May/June 2009 issue of IEEE Internet Computing.
• We have given a tutorial on VisTrails at the SciDAC conference. Here are the tutorial materials.
• The VisTrails Plug-In for Autodesk's Maya has received the Utah Innovation Award. For details see http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12265955

• The beta version of DeepPeep is now online and also in the news, in the New York Times. (Additional media coverage.)

• The VisTrails Project has been featured as an NSF discovery. Check out the report in the NSF Web site.
• The Utah Business Magazine says I am one of the Forty under 40 business leaders in Utah.

• Reproducibility in Science. We are building infrastructure to simplify the creation, review and sharing of computational experiments.
• VisTrails. VisTrails is an open-source data analysis and visualization sytem. It captures detailed provenance for the data exploration process and uses this information to streamline the creation, execution, and sharing of computational processes (aka workflows, dataflow, pipelines) which are widely used to construct visualizations, perform data analysis and mining.
• Provenance Analytics
• BirdVis: Visualizing Geo-Temporal Data. BirdVis is an interactive visualization system that supports the analysis of spatio-temporal bird distribution models.
• Finding and Querying Structured Data on the Web. In this project, we have addressed the problem of large-scale information integration to enable on-the-fly queries over structured Web data.
• Uncovering Hidden Web data. Our goal in this project is to develop a scalable infrastructure that automates, to a large extent, the process of discovering, organizing, and extracting data from hidden-Web sources. We have built DeepPeep, a new search engine specialized in Web forms. For more details about this project, see http://fleixeiras.cs.utah.edu/webdb.
• Previous projects

• Best paper award at Eurographics 2010, Educator Program.
  Using VisTrails and Provenance for Teaching Scientific Visualization
  (by C. Silva, E. Anderson, E. Santos, and J. Freire)
  Computer Graphics Forum, 30(1), pp. 75-84, 2011.
• NSF CAREER. This award has supported my group in the development of new algorithms and infrastructure for efficiently managing workflows and their provenance and for enabling casual users (who do not necessarily have programming expertise) to perform exploratory tasks and solve problems through workflows. In the context of this project, we are collaborating closely with domain scientists in different domains and are activelly contributing to the open-source VisTrails system.
• IBM Faculty Award.
• Utah Innovation Award for the VisTrails Plug-In for Autodesk's Maya (Stoel Rives and the Utah Technology Council)
• One of Utah's Forty under Forty business leaders (Utah Business Magazine)
• Best paper award at IEEE Visualization 2007. Querying and Creating Visualizations by Analogy (by Carlos Scheidegger, Huy Vo, David Koop, Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva). Here's a video that demonstrates both the query by example interface and the analogy operation.

Publications

• Quasi-complete list of publications
• Incomplete publication list from DBLP
• Citation list from Google Scholar

Patents Issued, Pending (partial list)

Recent and Selected Talks (All talks)

• Exploring Big and Not So Big Data. Distinguished Lecture Series, Computer Science, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada, December 4th, 2012.
• Towards and Infrastructure to Create Reproducible Papers. Beyond the PDF Workshop. San Diego. January 19th, 2011.
• Publishing Reproducible Results with VisTrails. Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva. SIAM Mini-Symposium on Reproducible Research. Las Vegas. March 4, 2011.
• Provenance-Rich Science. Juliana Freire. FORTH. Crete, Greece. June 22, 2011.
• A Provenance-Based Infrastructure for Creating Reproducible Papers. AMP 2011 Workshop on Reproducible Research. Vancouver, Canada. July 14, 2011.
• Provenance-Rich Science. Keynote at the DB/IR Day, AT&T Shannon Labs, Florham Park, NJ, October 22, 2010.
• Provenance Management for Data Exploration. Keynote at the International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), Sweden, August 2010.
• Infrastructure for Understanding Human Knowledge. ICiS Workshop on Integrating, Representing, and Reasoning over Human Knowledge: A Computational Grand Challenge for the 21st Century. Snowbird, August 8, 2010.
• Supporting Provenance-Rich Science with VisTrails. CScADS Scientific Data and Analytics for Petascale Computing Workshop. Snowbird, July 26, 2010.
• The WebDB Group: Research Overview. Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, June 29th, 2010.
• Provenance in Science: Challenges and Opportunities. Invited talk at International Workshop on The Next Generation of Quantum Simulations , Moorea, French Polynesia, May 2009.
• Provenance Management: Challenges and Opportunities. Keynote at the GI-Fachtagung Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web (BTW), March 2009.
• Provenance and Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities (with Susan Davidson). Tutorial presented at ACM SIGMOD -- Vancouver, Canada, June 2008.
• Provenance Management: Challenges and Opportunities (with Claudio Silva). Invited tutorial at SBBD 2007 - Simposio Brasileiro de Banco de Dados -- Joao Pessoal, Brazil, October 2007.
• VisTrails: Using Provenance to Streamline Data Exploration through Workflows. Keynote at the e-Science Workshop -- Joao Pessoal, Brazil, October 2007.
• Provenance Analytics: Exploring Science Trails. SciFoo -- Googleplex, Mountain View, CA, August 2007.
• (not so recent talks)

Current and Selected Professional Activities

• Conference/Workshop Organization
  • ACM SIGMOD 2012. Group leader.
    
  • International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2012, Experiments and Analysis Track. - Program co-chair with Gustavo Alonso.
    
  • Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW) 2012. - Program co-chair with Dan Suciu.
    
  • Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TAPP). Program co-chair with Peter Buneman.
    
  • International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2009 - Workshop Co-Chair
    
  • International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW), 2008- Co-chair
    
  • Symposium on Provenance in Workflows, 2008 - Co-organizer
    
  • CIKM 2008- Track chair for Systems, Platforms, Middleware, Applications and Experiences
    
  • WWW2008 - Vice-chair for XML and Web Data
    
  • HPDC Provenance Challenge Workshop, 2007 - Co-chair
    
  • WWW2007 - Deputy Vice-chair for XML and Web Data
    
  • ICDE2007 - Area chair for Web Data Management, Web Information Systems
    
  • IEEE Visualization 2006 Workshop on Grid-Based Visualization - Co-organizer.
  • WWW2005 - Vice-chair
    
  • WebDB2003 - Co-chair
  • SIGMOD2003 - Chair, Demonstrations Committee
  • WWW2003 - Deputy Vice Chair
  • First International Workshop on Tabling in Logic Programming - Co-chair
• Recent Committees
  • ICDE2010- PC member
    
  • First International Workshop on Data and Process Provenance (WDPP) - PC member
    
  • ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2009 (tutorial program)
  • International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB) Ph.D. Workshop, 2009
    
  • SBBD2008- PC member
    
  • DILS2008- PC member
    
  • IEEE International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF 2008) - PC member
    
  • VLDB2008- PC member
    
  • ICDE2008- PC member
    
  • First International Workshop on REsource Discovery (RED), 2008
    
  • VLDB2007- PC member
    
  • SIGMOD2007- PC member (industrial committee)
    
  • SBBD2007- PC member
    
• Past Activities