Dr. Yuliya Lierler joined the Computer Science Department in the College of Information Science & Technology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2012. She is now at the rank of the associate professor. In September 2020, she has been appointed to the Cheryl Prewett Diamond Professorship. 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. Dr. Lierler’s research interests include the field of artificial intelligence, especially in the area of knowledge representation, automated reasoning, declarative problem solving, and natural language understanding.