Ewa Deelman

Ewa Deelman received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1998. After a postdoctoral appointment at UCLA, she joined the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) in 2000, where she is now a Research Director leading the Science Automation Technologies Center and a Research Professor in the USC Computer Science Department. She is an AAAS, IEEE, and USC/ISI Fellow.

Dr. Deelman is internationally recognized for pioneering workflow planning and automation for distributed and high-performance computing environments. She leads the design and development of the Pegasus Workflow Management System, a widely adopted platform that enables large-scale, reproducible, and open computational science across domains. Her research spans workflow optimization, resource provisioning, data management, provenance capture, and the use of cloud and hybrid platforms for scientific discovery. She also serves as Principal Investigator and Director of CI Compass, the NSF-funded Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence supporting the National Science Foundation’s Major and Midscale Research Facilities.

In 2006, Dr. Deelman founded the annual WORKS Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science, held in conjunction with the SC conference. Her contributions have been recognized with the HPDC Achievement Award (2015) and the Euro-Par Achievement Award (2022) for her outstanding impact on workflow-based parallel and distributed computing.