Ewa Deelmanreceived her PhD in Computer Science from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutein 1998. Following a postdoc at the UCLA Computer Science Department she joinedthe University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) in2000, where she is serving as a Research Director and is leading the ScienceAutomation Technologies group. She is also a Research Professor at the USCComputer Science Department and an AAAS and IEEE Fellow. The USC/ISI ScienceAutomation Technologies group explores the interplay between automation and themanagement of scientific workflows that include resource provisioning and datamanagement. Dr. Deelman pioneered workflow planning for computations executingin distributed environments. Her group has led the design and development ofthe Pegasus Workflow Management software and conducts research in jobscheduling and resource provisioning in distributed systems, workflowperformance modeling, provenance capture, and the use of cloud platforms forscience.

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