Yuliya Lierler

Dr. Yuliya Lierler is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nebraska Omaha's College of Information Science & Technology. She has been a faculty member since 2012, reaching the rank of full professor, and was appointed to the Cheryl Prewett Diamond Professorship in 2020. Her work focuses on artificial intelligence, particularly in knowledge representation, automated reasoning, and declarative problem solving.

• PhD in Computer Science (University of Texas at Austin, 2010)

Dr. Lierler's research bridges logic programming with practical AI applications, including natural language understanding, constraint satisfaction, and SMT-based solvers. She is a co-director of the NLPKR lab and has authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications in venues like Artificial Intelligence Journal and AAAI. Her contributions include open-access textbooks and tools like text2alm for semantic information extraction.

Her recent publications explore advancements in answer set programming (ASP) semantics, automated reasoning frameworks, and hybrid knowledge representation systems. She has served as program co-chair for major conferences like ICLP (2022) and PADL (2017), and received awards such as the IS&T Outstanding Research Award (2024). Dr. Lierler also mentors students and leads initiatives in teaching innovation through online education and professional development programs.

• Mentor of the Year Award, Aksarben Foundation (2025)
• IS&T Outstanding Research and Creativity Award (2024)
• Best Student Paper Award (with Amelia Harrison, 2016)

Dr. Lierler contributes to academic service through leadership roles in international conferences and program committees. Her lab, NLPKR, focuses on integrating natural language processing with formal logic, while her teaching emphasizes formal methods and AI foundations.