Dr. Elena Sherman joined the faculty of the College of Engineering at Boise State University in 2013 as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a B.S. in Management Information Systems from Peru State College in Peru, Nebraska, and an M.S. in Astronomy from Moscow State University in Russia. Dr. Sherman previously taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and has worked for NASA, Google, Inc., and ConAgra Foods. She served on the organizing committee for the International Workshop on the State of the Art in Java Program Analysis (SOAP 2012), co-located with PLDI'12, in Beijing, China in June 2012.