Yuliya Lierler
Dr. Yuliya Lierler
- Cheryl Prewett Diamond Professorship
- Computer Science, Associate Professor
General Information
Biography
Yuliya Lierler is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She has been appointed to the Cheryl Prewett Diamond Professorship in September, 2020. 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 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