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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. She is known for her research in information visualization, data provenance, and computerized assistance for scientific reproducibility.
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.
Freire's research projects include the VisTrails scientific workflow management system, and the DeepPeep search engine for web database content.
Freire was the program co-chair of the WWW2010 conference. 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."