Yuliya Lierler

Biography

Yuliya Lierler is a Professor at the Computer Science Department at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She held the Cheryl Prewett Diamond Professorship in 2020-2023. In 2024, she received the IS&T Outstanding Research Award. She is a director of the Knowledge Representation and Natural Language Understanding Lab.Yuliya Lierler served as a Computing Innovation Fellow Postdoc at the University of Kentucky for two years after completing her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin in 2010.

Teaching Interests

Artificial intelligence; Formal methods in computer science; Knowledge representation; Natural Language processing and understanding.Sample Syllabi and Lecture Notes can be found here.

Research Interests

My research interests are in the field of artificial intelligence, especially in the area of knowledge representation, automated reasoning, declarative problem solving, and natural language understanding.My publications can be found here.The link to the Knowledge Representation and Natural Language Understanding Lab can be found here.

Service Summary

Co-Chair of the 38th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP), 2022;Co-Chair of the 15th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR), 2019;Computer Science Graduate Program Committee Chair, 2018-2020;Co-Chair of the 19th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL), 2017

Awards and Honors

IS&T Outstanding Research Award, Scholarship/Research - 2024

Cheryl Prewett Diamond Professorship, Scholarship/Research - 2020

Education

Ph D, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA, Computer Science, 2010

Professional Development

Community of Practice: Teaching, The AI Advantage: Transforming Teaching and Preparing Students to Thrive , 08/01/2024 - 10/01/2024

Community of Practice: Teaching, The Foundations of Teaching Online, 4e, 06/01/2023 - 07/01/2023