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      <div class="kicker"><span></span> DATA / INFRASTRUCTURE / SCIENCE</div>
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      <p>My research focuses on a diverse set of themes that lie at the intersection of data management, scalable infrastructures, scientific discovery, and intelligent systems. These areas combine theoretical advances with practical applications, aiming to build tools, methods, and systems that empower science and technology in the era of big data and artificial intelligence.</p>
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            <div class="kicker">AREA 01</div>
            <h3>Scientific Workflow Management</h3>
            <p>This area investigates how to model, execute, and optimize large-scale scientific workflows. Research focuses on automation, reproducibility, and fault tolerance to enable scientists to orchestrate complex experiments seamlessly, reducing human effort and improving scientific productivity.</p>
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            <div class="kicker">AREA 02</div>
            <h3>Cloud Computing</h3>
            <p>Research in cloud computing addresses elasticity, scalability, and cost-effectiveness in distributed environments. By leveraging virtualized resources and on-demand infrastructures, the goal is to optimize performance and reduce barriers for executing data-intensive scientific experiments.</p>
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            <div class="kicker">AREA 03</div>
            <h3>Provenance Data Management</h3>
            <p>Provenance, or data lineage, ensures that scientific results are transparent and reproducible. My work develops models, storage systems, and analysis techniques that make it possible to capture, query, and reason about the origin, evolution, and trustworthiness of data at scale.</p>
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            <div class="kicker">AREA 04</div>
            <h3>Bioinformatics</h3>
            <p>Bioinformatics integrates computing and biology to address challenges in genomics, transcriptomics, and molecular biology. Research focuses on designing scalable data pipelines, efficient algorithms, and workflow solutions that support the analysis of massive and heterogeneous biological datasets.</p>
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            <div class="kicker">AREA 05</div>
            <h3>Data Management for Machine Learning</h3>
            <p>Preparing data for machine learning is a complex and costly process. This research area explores methods for feature engineering, data cleaning, integration, and sampling, ensuring that ML models are trained with high-quality data while optimizing efficiency and scalability.</p>
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            <h3>Machine Learning for Data Management</h3>
            <p>Instead of only preparing data for ML, this area investigates how ML techniques can improve traditional data management tasks. Applications include intelligent indexing, adaptive query optimization, and workload prediction, enabling smarter and more efficient data systems.</p>
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            <div class="kicker">AREA 07</div>
            <h3>eScience</h3>
            <p>eScience is the use of advanced computational methods to accelerate scientific discovery. This area involves designing infrastructures, data repositories, and collaborative platforms that enable interdisciplinary research, promote open science, and help scientists turn vast amounts of data into knowledge and innovation.</p>
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