ISI Directory

Ewa Deelman, Ph.D.

Research Professor

Research Director, Scientific Computation Technologies

Distinguished Principal Scientist

ISI Fellow

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
M.Sc. Computer Science, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY
B.A. Wells College, Aurora, NY

Research Summary

My main area of research is distributed computing. I research how to best support complex scientific applications on a variety of computational environments, including campus clusters, grids, and clouds. I have designed new algorithms for job scheduling, resource provisioning, and data storage optimization in the context of scientific workflows.

Since 2000, I have been conducting research in scientific workflows and have been leading the design and development of the Pegasus software that maps complex application workflows onto distributed resources. Pegasus is used by a broad community of researchers in astronomy, bioinformatics, earthquake science, gravitational-wave physics, limnology, and others.

I am also the Principle Investigator for the CI Compass (formerly CI CoE pilot), which provides leadership, expertise, and active support to cyberinfrastructure practitioners at NSF Major Facilities and throughout the research ecosystem in order to enable ongoing evolution of our technologies, our practices, and our field, ensuring the integrity and effectiveness of the cyberinfrastructure upon which research and discovery depend.

In addition, I am interested in issues of distributed data management, high-level application monitoring, and resource provisioning in grids and clouds.

For more information please see http://deelman.isi.edu or my group's website: Scitech.

Awards

▪ AAAS Fellow, November 2019
▪ IEEE Fellow, December 2017
▪ USC Information Sciences Achievement Award "for technical contributions and leadership in the field of scientific workflow systems for high-performance computing", 2015.
▪ High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) 2015 achievement award, which is presented to an individual who has made long-lasting, influential contributions to the foundations or practice of the field of high-performance parallel and distributed computing, June 2015
▪ CENIC Star Performer for the ADAMANT project, January 2014
▪ Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California's (CENIC) 2013 Innovations in Networking Award for Experimental/Developmental Applications for the ADAMANT (Adaptive Data-Aware Multi-domain Application Network Topologies) Project, March 2013