Ewa Deelman is an American computer scientist specializing in distributed computing and cloud computing for applications in scientific computing. Her contributions include leading the design of the

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scientific workflow management system, used by the LIGO scientific collaboration to detect

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s. She is a research professor of computer science in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and a principal scientist at the

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, both part of the University of Southern California.

Recognition

Deelman was the 2015 recipient of the HPDC Achievement Award, given with an invitation for a keynote address at the International

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Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing, "for her significant influence, contributions, and distinguished use of workflow systems in high-performance computing". She was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2018 class of fellows, "for contributions to scientific workflow management". She was named as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019, "particularly for the design and optimization of scientific workflows in distributed and high-performance environments".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Deelman, Ewa Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer scientists American women computer scientists Wells College alumni State University of New York at New Paltz alumni Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni University of Southern California faculty Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science