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 of Computer Science and Data Science at New York University. She is the elected chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) and a council member of the Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC). She was the lead investigator and executive director of the NYU Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment. Her research interests are in large-scale data analysis, curation and integration, visualization, provenance management, and web information discovery. She has made fundamental contributions to data management methods and tools that address problems introduced by emerging applications including urban analytics and computational reproducibility. Freire has published over 180 technical papers, several open-source systems, and is an inventor of 12 U.S. patents. She has co-authored 6 award-winning papers, including one that received the ACM SIGMOD Most Reproducible Paper Award. She is an ACM Fellow and a recipient of an NSF CAREER, two IBM Faculty awards, and a Google Faculty Research award. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, DARPA, Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, Sloan Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, W. M. Keck Foundation, Google, Amazon, AT&T Research, Microsoft Research, Yahoo! and IBM. She received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;table-layout:fixed"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;padding:5px 18px 15px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-top:1px solid rgb(216,216,216);border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;table-layout:fixed"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;padding:0px 18px 15px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-top:2px none rgb(234,234,234);border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" id="gmail-m_-5844250611054038399templateColumns" style="background-image:none;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:50% 50%;background-size:cover;border-top:0px;border-bottom:2px none rgb(234,234,234);padding-top:0px"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="200" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="200" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="200" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" id="gmail-m_-5844250611054038399templateFooter" style="background-image:none;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:50% 50%;background-size:cover;border-top:0px;border-bottom:0px;padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:0px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:18px"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:20px;background-color:rgb(17,17,17);border-radius:10px;vertical-align:middle"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-right:30px"><img alt="CDAC UChicago" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/340109bd23d128ecf238bf6da/images/0cbb3e8c-7e89-4ab0-a2b4-3c339bb3bbf8.png" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: none; max-width: 200px; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; border: 0px;"></td><td><p style="opacity:0.85;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12px;color:rgb(163,169,178);line-height:18px;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px">CDAC is the incubator for new multidisciplinary data science and artificial intelligence research at the University of Chicago. We catalyze new discoveries by fusing fundamental and applied research with real-world applications.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="padding:9px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="padding-left:9px;padding-right: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