Juliana Freire is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing at
the University of Utah. Before, she was member of technical staff at
the Database Systems Research Department at Bell Laboratories (Lucent
Technologies) and an Assistant Professor at OGI/OHSU.  An important
theme is Professor Freire's work is the development of data management
technology to address new problems introduced by emerging
applications, including the Web and scientific applications.  Her
recent research has focused on two main topics: scientific data
management and Web mining.  Within scientific data management, she is
best known for her work in provenance and scientific workflows, and
for being a co-creator of VisTrails. Professor Freire is an active
member of the database and Web research communities, having
co-authored over 80 technical papers and holding 4 U.S. patents.  She
is a recipient of an NSF CAREER and an IBM Faculty award.  She has
chaired or co-chaired several workshops and conferences, and she has
participated as a program committee member in over 50 events.  Her
research has been funded by grants from the National Science
Foundation, Department of Energy and the University of Utah.