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Abdelilah Essiari

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Abdelilah Essiari
Computer Systems Engineer
Phone: 510-486-6154

Abdelilah is a Computer Systems Engineer with 20+ years of experience spanning distributed systems, security services, big data and software architecture. He rejoined the group in February 2020 and prior to that worked for Cisco Systems as a Technical Lead and Gemini data as a Principal Engineer. Abdelilah first joined LBNL in the late nineties. He worked on highly diverse projects such as Akenti Distributed Authorization, InterGroup/SGL/Scishare, and the ALS SPOT framework for real-time data analysis of lightsource experiments. 

Journal Articles

Zhe Bai, Abdelilah Essiari, Talita Perciano, Kristofer E Bouchard, "AutoCT: Automated CT registration, segmentation, and quantification", Software X, January 5, 2024, 26, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2024.101673

Devarshi Ghoshal, Ludovico Bianchi, Abdelilah Essiari, Michael Beach, Drew Paine, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, "Science Capsule - Capturing the Data Life Cycle", Journal of Open Source Software, 2021, 6:2484, doi: 10.21105/joss.02484

Conference Papers

Devarshi Ghoshal, Ludovico Bianchi, Abdelilah Essiari, Drew Paine, Sarah Poon, Michael Beach, Alpha N'Diaye, Patrick Huck, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, "Science Capsule: Towards Sharing and Reproducibility of Scientific Workflows", 2021 IEEE Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS), November 15, 2021, doi: 10.1109/WORKS54523.2021.00014

Workflows are increasingly processing large volumes of data from scientific instruments, experiments and sensors. These workflows often consist of complex data processing and analysis steps that might include a diverse ecosystem of tools and also often involve human-in-the-loop steps. Sharing and reproducing these workflows with collaborators and the larger community is critical but hard to do without the entire context of the workflow including user notes and execution environment. In this paper, we describe Science Capsule, which is a framework to capture, share, and reproduce scientific workflows. Science Capsule captures, manages and represents both computational and human elements of a workflow. It automatically captures and processes events associated with the execution and data life cycle of workflows, and lets users add other types and forms of scientific artifacts. Science Capsule also allows users to create `workflow snapshots' that keep track of the different versions of a workflow and their lineage, allowing scientists to incrementally share and extend workflows between users. Our results show that Science Capsule is capable of processing and organizing events in near real-time for high-throughput experimental and data analysis workflows without incurring any significant performance overheads.