Some News (and some not so new news)

• 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
• I have given an invited talk at the International Workshop on The Next Generation of Quantum Simulations , which was held in Moorea, French Polynesia.

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

• We have received an NSF CLUE award that will allow our group to build infrastructure that supports data analysis and visualization on CLOUDs. We were highlighted on the NSF main page, which showed a series of visualizations generated by VisTrails on our display wall.

• I have given a keynote at the BTW 2009 in Münster.
• The VisTrails Project has been featured as an NSF discovery. Check out the report at the NSF Web site.
• The Utah Business Magazine says I am one of the Forty under 40 business leaders in Utah.
• Together with Emanuele Santos and Claudio Silva, I have given a tutorial at the IEEE eScience Conference on how to use Vistrails to streamline data exploration and visualization. The tutorial slides and hands-on examples are available at http://www.vistrails.org/index.php/E-science_2008
• Together with James Cheney and Bertram Ludaescher, I have organized the Symposium on Provenance in Workflows , held in beautiful and snowy Salt Lake City from October 13-17th, 2008.
• I co-chaired and organized the International Provenance and Annotation workshop (IPAW) was held in Salt Lake City on June 17-18, 2008. For more details, see the IPAW 2008 Web site.
• I have attended the SciFoo camp . This was a *very* interesting event where I learned about Cosmology, mental disorders, chemistry, and bioinformatics. I organized a session on Provenance Analytics and the future of scientific publications (more on this later).

• Retrieval and mining of hidden-Web data
• Scientific Data Management, Workflows and Provenance
• XML and semi-structured data management
• Large-scale data integration
• Web information systems and Internet applications
• Databases and knowledge-base systems

• NSF CAREER. This award will allow my group to build infrastructure for efficiently managing workflows and their provenance, and to enable casual users (who do not necessarily have programming expertise) to perform exploratory tasks and solve problems through workflows. We are collaborating closely with scientists in the NSF Science and Technology Center for Coastal Margins Observatories & Predictions.
• 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
• Incomplete citation list from Google Scholar

Patents Issued, Pending (partial list)

Recent talks (All talks)

• 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.
• The VisTrails System: Streamlining Data Exploration and Visualization through Scientific Workflows and Provenance (with Emanuele Santos and Claudio Silva). Tutorial presented at IEEE eScience Conference -- Indianapolis, Indiana, December 2008.
• Simplifying the Design of Workflows for Large-Scale Data Exploration and Visualization . Microsoft eScience Workshop -- Indianapolis, Indiana, December 2008.
• 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.
• Querying and Creating Visualizations by Analogy. University of Southampton -- Southampton, UK, August 2007.
• VisTrails: Using Provenance to Streamline Data Exploration through Workflows. IBM Almaden -- San Jose, CA, August 2007.
• Discovering and Organizing Hidden-Web Sources. Microsoft Search Labs -- Mountain View, CA, August 2007.
• Provenance Analytics: Exploring Science Trails. SciFoo -- Googleplex, Mountain View, CA, August 2007.
• Automatically Constructing a Directory of Molecular Biology Databases. Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS) -- Philadelphia, June 2007.
• VisTrails: Using Provenance to Streamline Data Exploration. Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS) -- Philadelphia, June 2007.
• (not so recent talks)

Research projects

• Managing and Exploring Provenance: Together with Claudio Silva from the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, we are buidling an open-source provenance management system that streamlines the creation, execution, and sharing of exploratory computational processes (aka workflows) which are widely used to construct visualizations, perform data analysis and mining. Our project has been funded by the National Science Foundation under awards IIS-0513692, IIS 0746500 , Department of Energy and IBM faculty awards. For more details (and cool videos!) and to download the system, see the official VisTrails Web site.
• 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.
• A Laboratory Workbench for Security Research . Together with Jay Lepreau and Eric Eide, we are developing new techniques and technologies that directly improve the study of security-related software systems. Our project is funded by the NSF CNS Division of Computer and Network Systems.
• Semi-structured/XML data management. I have worked on several aspects of the data management problem for semi-structured data, including:
  • Techniques and systems for storing and querying XML in relational databases:
    • LegoDB: Cost-based mapping of XML documents into relational databases
    • ShreX: an XML-to-relational mapping middleware. Beta release is available.
    • FlexMap: a flexible framework for XML schema transformations
    • Lossless and validating XML-to-relational mapping schemes that correctly support updates to mapped for XML
  • XML result estimation and statistics
    • IMAX: incrementally maintaining statistical summaries of XML documents
    • StatiX: schema-based statistical summaries of XML documents
    • StatiX++

Professional activities

• Conference/Workshop Organization
  • International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2010 - Program chair
    
  • 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
  • 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

Diversity and Outreach Activities

• I have started a new Women in Technology Distinguished Lecture Series at the School of Computing
• I am a member of the NCWIT Academic Alliance
• The School of Computing Diversity and Outreach committee

• Spring 2009: Research Topics in Databases (University of Utah)
  
• Fall 2008: cs5530/6530 -- Database Systems(University of Utah)
  
• Spring 2008: Web Mining (University of Utah)
  
• Previous courses