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Biography

Dr. Yuliya Lierler joined the Computer Science Department in the College of Information Science & Technology (IS&T) at the 51ÉçÇø (UNO) in 2012. She is now at the rank of the full professor. In September 2020, she was appointed to the Cheryl Prewett Diamond Professorship. In 2024, she was awarded an Outstanding Research and Creativity Award by the College of IS&T. Dr. Lierler’s research interests and contributions are within the field of artificial intelligence, especially in the area of knowledge representation, automated reasoning, declarative problem solving, and natural language understanding. In 2020, she was elected as an Executive Committee member of the Association of Logic Programming. Dr. Lierler was a program co-chair of several international conferences including the 38th International Conference on Logic programming, 2022. She is the author of seventy peer-reviewed articles that appeared in various prestigious AI venues including Artificial Intelligence Journal and AAAI conference. In 2024, Dr. Lierler published an open access textbook titled Discrete Mathematics in a Nutshell or Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science as part of the affordable content effort led by UNO. Prior to coming to UNO, Dr. Lierler was a Computing Innovation Fellow Postdoc at the University of Kentucky. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin.

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