Juliana Freire

Institute Professor, Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

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Education

Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012

Work experience

Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator
- GitHub University
- Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template
- Supervisor: The Users
Fall 2015: Research Assistant
- GitHub University
- Duties included: Merging pull requests
- Supervisor: Professor Hub
Summer 2015: Research Assistant
- GitHub University
- Duties included: Tagging issues
- Supervisor: Professor Git

Skills

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Publications

Semantic Data Systems: From Data Management to Data Understanding

Juliana Freire "Semantic Data Systems: From Data Management to Data Understanding." Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 2026

Interoperability in Healthcare: A Primer and New Frontiers

Andra Ionescu, Paris Carbone, Sebastiaan Meijer, Christos Koutras, Juliana Freire, Katja Hose, and Jayanth Raghothama "Interoperability in Healthcare: A Primer and New Frontiers." Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 2026

MosaicJoin: Compact Semantic Sketches for Value-Level Join Discovery

Grace Fan, Eden Wu, Majid Daliri, and Juliana Freire "MosaicJoin: Compact Semantic Sketches for Value-Level Join Discovery." Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 2026

AgentTrails: Towards Trust and Reuse for Agentic Tasks

Eden Wu, Sonia Castelo, Yurong Liu, Cláudio T. Silva, and Juliana Freire "AgentTrails: Towards Trust and Reuse for Agentic Tasks." ACM SIGMOD DashSys Workshop 2026

HILTS: Human-LLM collaboration for effective data labeling

Juliana Barbosa, Eduarda Alencar, Grace Fan, Aécio Santos, and Juliana Freire "HILTS: Human-LLM collaboration for effective data labeling." Information Systems 2026

BDIViz in Action: Interactive Curation and Benchmarking for Schema Matching Methods

Eden Wu, Christos Koutras, Cláudio T. Silva, and Juliana Freire "BDIViz in Action: Interactive Curation and Benchmarking for Schema Matching Methods." Companion of the International Conference on Management of Data 2026

BDI-Kit Demo: A Toolkit for Programmable and Conversational Data Harmonization

Roque Lopez, Yurong Liu, Christos Koutras, and Juliana Freire "BDI-Kit Demo: A Toolkit for Programmable and Conversational Data Harmonization." Companion of the International Conference on Management of Data 2026

BDI-Kit: An AI-powered toolkit for biomedical data harmonization

Roque Lopez, Aécio Santos, Christos Koutras, and Juliana Freire "BDI-Kit: An AI-powered toolkit for biomedical data harmonization." Patterns 2026

AutoDDG: Automated Dataset Description Generation using Large Language Models

Haoxiang Zhang, Yurong Liu, Aécio Santos, Wei-Lun (Allen) Hung, and Juliana Freire "AutoDDG: Automated Dataset Description Generation using Large Language Models." Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data 2026

From FAIR to CURE: guidelines for computational models of biological systems

Herbert M. Sauro, Eran Agmon, Michael L. Blinov, John H. Gennari, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Adel Heydarabadipour, Bartholomew E. Jardine, Elebeoba May, David P. Nickerson, Lucian P. Smith, Gary D. Bader, Frank T. Bergmann, Patrick M. Boyle, Andreas Dräger, James R. Faeder, Song Feng, Juliana Freire, Fabian Fröhlich, James A. Glazier, Thomas E. Gorochowski, Tomas Helikar, Henning Hermjakob, Stefan Hoops, Peter Hunter, Princess I. Imoukhuede, Sarah M. Keating, Matthias König, Reinhard Laubenbacher, Leslie M. Loew, Carlos F. Lopez, William W. Lytton, Rahuman S. Malik-Sheriff, Andrew McCulloch, Pedro Mendes, Lealem Mulugeta, Chris J. Myers, Jerry G. Myers Jr, Anna Niarakis, David D. Van Niekerk, Brett G. Olivier, Alexander A. Patrie, Ellen M. Quardokus, Nicole Radde, Johann M. Rohwer, Sven Sahle, James C. Schaff, Falk Schreiber, T. J. Sego, Janis Shin, Jacky L. Snoep, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli, H. Steven Wiley, Dagmar Waltemath, and Ion I. Moraru "From FAIR to CURE: guidelines for computational models of biological systems." npj Systems Biology and Applications 2026

Scaling the web: Unraveling online reptile leather trade networks with machine learning and network analysis

G.A. Petrossian, J. Lang, J. Von Ferber, U. Gondhali, B. Lieu, K. Bernstein, J. Barbosa, K. Sharma, S. Chakraborty, and J. Freire "Scaling the web: Unraveling online reptile leather trade networks with machine learning and network analysis." Biological Conservation 2026

TiVy: Time Series Visual Summary for Scalable Visualization

Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Themis Palpanas, Cláudio T. Silva, and Juliana Freire "TiVy: Time Series Visual Summary for Scalable Visualization." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2026

Quantizing Sampling-Based Inner Product Sketches

Gabriel M. Silva, Aécio Santos, Majid Daliri, Juliana Freire, and Christopher Musco "Quantizing Sampling-Based Inner Product Sketches." The 2nd Workshop on Vector Databases 2026

LakeQA: An Exploratory QA Benchmark over a Million-Scale Data Lake

Haonan Wang, Jiaxiang Liu, Yurong Liu, Austin Senna Wijaya, Tianle Zhou, Eden Wu, Yijia Chen, Wanting You, Reya Vir, Daniela Pinto Veizaga, Grace Fan, Yusen Zhang, Juliana Freire, and Eugene Wu "LakeQA: An Exploratory QA Benchmark over a Million-Scale Data Lake." Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026

Data Gatherer Revisited: Scalable Dataset Reference Extraction from Biomedical Literature

Pietro Marini, Michael Nalls, Mette Peters, Nicole Contaxis, Aécio Santos, and Juliana Freire "Data Gatherer Revisited: Scalable Dataset Reference Extraction from Biomedical Literature." VLDB 2026 Workshop on Biomedical Data Management Systems (BioDMS) 2026

BDIViz: An Interactive Visualization System for Biomedical Schema Matching with LLM-Powered Validation

Eden Wu, Dishita G Turakhia, Guande Wu, Christos Koutras, Sarah Keegan, Wenke Liu, Beata Szeitz, David Fenyo, Cláudio T. Silva, and Juliana Freire "BDIViz: An Interactive Visualization System for Biomedical Schema Matching with LLM-Powered Validation." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2026

Bridging Disciplines in Data Management Research to Solve Complex Data Problems

Juliana Freire "Bridging Disciplines in Data Management Research to Solve Complex Data Problems." Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 2025

Descriptive Analysis of Online Wildlife Products Using Vision Language Models

Kinshuk Sharma, Juliana Silva Barbosa, Spencer Roberts, Ulhas Gondhali, Gohar Petrossian, Jennifer Jacquet, Juliana Freire, and Sunandan Chakraborty "Descriptive Analysis of Online Wildlife Products Using Vision Language Models." Proceedings of the ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies 2025

Hierarchical Table Semantics for Exploratory Table Discovery

Grace Fan, and Juliana Freire "Hierarchical Table Semantics for Exploratory Table Discovery." Proceedings of the Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics 2025

Editorial for Special Issue: VLDB 2022

Juliana Freire, Fatma Özcan, and Xuemin Lin "Editorial for Special Issue: VLDB 2022." The VLDB Journal 2025

A Cost-Effective LLM-based Approach to Identify Wildlife Trafficking in Online Marketplaces

Juliana Silva Barbosa, Ulhas Gondhali, Gohar Petrossian, Kinshuk Sharma, Sunandan Chakraborty, Jennifer Jacquet, and Juliana Freire "A Cost-Effective LLM-based Approach to Identify Wildlife Trafficking in Online Marketplaces." Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data 2025

Prevalence of endangered shark trophies in automated detection of the online wildlife trade

Sunandan Chakraborty, Spencer N. Roberts, Gohar A. Petrossian, Monique Sosnowski, Juliana Freire, and Jennifer Jacquet "Prevalence of endangered shark trophies in automated detection of the online wildlife trade." Biological Conservation 2025

Magneto: Combining Small and Large Language Models for Schema Matching

Yurong Liu, Eduardo H. M. Pena, Aécio Santos, Eden Wu, and Juliana Freire "Magneto: Combining Small and Large Language Models for Schema Matching." Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 2025

How can we make sound replication decisions?

Clintin P. Davis-Stober, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Balazs Aczel, Suyog H. Chandramouli, Timothy M. Errington, Sarahanne M. Field, Ayelet Fishbach, Juliana Freire, John P. A. Ioannidis, Klaus Oberauer, Franco Pestilli, Susanne Ressl, Daniel J. Schad, Judith Ter Schure, Katya Tentori, Don Van Ravenzwaaij, Joachim Vandekerckhove, and Odd Erik Gundersen "How can we make sound replication decisions?." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2025

Large Language Models for Data Discovery and Integration: Challenges and Opportunities

Juliana Freire, Grace Fan, Benjamin Feuer, Christos Koutras, Yurong Liu, Eduardo H. M. Pena, Aecio Santos, Claudio Silva, and Eden Wu "Large Language Models for Data Discovery and Integration: Challenges and Opportunities." IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 2025

Large Language Models for Data Discovery and Integration: Challenges and Opportunities

Juliana Freire, Grace Fan, Benjamin Feuer, Christos Koutras, Yurong Liu, Eduardo Peña, Aécio S. R. Santos, Cláudio T. Silva, and Eden Wu "Large Language Models for Data Discovery and Integration: Challenges and Opportunities." IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 2025

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