Women in Programming Languages and Software Engineering Research

For your program committees, seminar series, panels, etc.

A couple of comments about women and balance:

• As a result of many well-meaning people trying to balance out committees, women get asked to be on committees a lot. It would be good to make it easy for women to say no and, even better, come up with some more globally optimal solution to the fact that while it's important to get women on committees and in front of people so there can be more women eventually, currently there simply aren't enough women to go around.
• Balance should not come at the cost of lower standards. Dropping standards for women (or any other group) introduces explicit bias because you're accepting that women can't be held to the same standards. (We talk a lot about implicit bias, but a lot of the bias that exists is often explicit and comes from things like this.) The right thing to do here is to use lists like this one to increase the pool and to be thoughtful about explicit and fair standards. Making it clear that this is what's happening is helpful so that people aren't assuming that the women and minorities got somewhere because of different standards. (Unfortunately, this happens a lot.)

And for people who are wondering why gender-balanced representation is a big deal, Adrienne Porter Felt has a good post about this.

Please add yourself, or someone who is comfortable being on this list, in alphabetical order. There are no guarantees about the comprehensiveness of this list.

Faculty and Research Scientists (at Universities or Research Institutions)

• Sara Achour, Stanford, USA
• Amal Ahmed, Northeastern University, USA
• Nada Amin, Harvard University, USA
• Zena M. Ariola, University of Oregon, USA
• Anya Helene Bagge, University of Bergen, Norway
• Stephanie Balzer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Annette Bieniusa, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
• Kelly Blincoe, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Laura Bocchi, University of Kent, UK
• Viviana Bono, Università di Torino, Italy
• Kuljit Kaur Chahal, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India
• Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada
• Maria Christakis, MPI-SWS, Germany
• Youyou Cong, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Ornela Dardha, University of Glasgow, UK
• Eva Darulova, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Işil Dillig, University of Texas Austin, USA
• Rayna Dimitrova, University of Leicester, UK
• Jenna Wise DiVincenzo, Purdue University, USA
• Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College London, UK
• Jana Dunfield, Queen's University, Canada
• Sue Eisenbach, Imperial College London, UK
• Azadeh Farzan, University of Toronto, Canada
• Kathleen Fisher, Tufts University, USA
• Maria Andreina Francisco Rodriguez, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Philippa Gardner, Imperial College London, UK
• Lilia Georgieva, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
• Alessandra Gorla, IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain
• Mary Hall, University of Utah, USA
• Regina Hebig, Chalmers Gothenburg University, Sweden
• Görel Hedin, Lund University, Sweden
• Felienne Hermans, Leiden University, The Netherlands
• Rashina Hoda, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Alexandra Jimborean, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University, USA
• Maria Jump, Kings College, UK
• Sara Kalvala, University of Warwick, UK
• Gabriele Keller, University of New South Wales, UK
• Marie Kerjean, CNRS, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France
• Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, UK
• Laura Kovács, TU Wien/Chalmers, Austria/Sweden
• Chandra Krintz, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• Lindsey Kuper, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
• Marta Kwiatkowska, Oxford University, UK
• Claire Le Goues, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Caroline Lemieux, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
• Crista Lopes, University of California, Irvine, USA
• Mae Milano, Princeton University, USA
• Ana Milanova, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Heather Miller, Northeastern University/EPFL, USA/Switzerland
• Mira Mezini, TU Darmstadt, Germany
• Brigitte Pientka, McGill University, Canada
• Ruzica Piskac, Yale University, USA
• Nadia Polikarpova, University of California, San Diego, USA
• Azalea Raad, Imperial College London, UK
• Talia Ringer, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Christine Rizkallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Paige Rodeghero, Clemson University, USA
• Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Iowa State University, USA
• Julia Rubin, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Roopsha Samanta, Purdue University, USA
• Ina Schaefer, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
• Sibylle Schupp, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
• Sharon Shoham Buchbinder, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Alexandra Silva, Cornell University, USA
• Ana Sokolova, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Perdita Stevens, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Michelle Mills Strout, University of Arizona, USA
• Shin Hwei Tan, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
• Laura Titolo, NIA/NASA Langley, USA
• Emma Tosch, University of Vermont, USA
• Caterina Urban, INRIA & École Normale Supérieure, France
• Niki Vazou, IMDEA Software Institute Madrid, Spain
• Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Aiko Yamashita, CWI, The Netherlands / Akershus University of Applied Sciences, Norway
• Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK

Industry

• Cristina Cifuentes, Oracle Labs, Australia
• Valeria de Paiva, Topos Institute, USA
• Jennifer Paykin, Galois, USA
• Ciera Jaspan, Google, USA
• Rezwana Karim, Samsung Research America
• Heidy Khlaaf, Adelard, UK
• Daira Hopwood, Jacaranda Software / Zerocoin Electric Coin Company
• Kathryn McKinley, Google, USA
• Darya Melicher, Google, USA
• Tatiana Shpeisman, Google, USA
• Ezgi Cicek, Facebook, UK
• Marianna Rapoport, Amazon, Canada
• Jean Yang, Akita Software, USA

Open Source

• Anne Ogborn, SWI-Prolog (works at The Elgin Works and Simularity)
• Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert, ZetaVM

Postdocs

• Eleni Constantinou, University of Mons, Belgium
• Eva Graversen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
• Jennifer Hackett, University of Nottingham, UK
• Anastasia Isychev, TU Wien, Austria
• Maria Kechagia, University College London, UK
• Rumyana Neykova, Imperial College London, UK
• Zoe Paraskevopoulou, Northeastern University, USA
• Larisa Safina, INRIA, France
• Malavika Samak, MIT, USA
• Kristina Sojakova, Cornell University, USA
• Hira Taqdees Syeda, Data61 CSIRO and UNSW Sydney, Australia
• Debasmita Lohar, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

PhD Students

• Leif Andersen, Northeastern University, USA
• Julia Belyakova, Northeastern University, USA
• Annie Cherkaev, University of Utah, USA
• Maryam Dabaghchian, University of Utah, USA
• Juliana Franco, Imperial College London, UK
• April Gonçalves, University of Strathclyde, UK
• Anna Gommerstadt, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Sylvia Grewe, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
• Wen Kokke, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Cristina Matache, University of Oxford, UK
• Rachel Muir, University of Kent, UK
• Jeevana Priya Inala, MIT, USA
• Juliana Alves Pereira, University of Magdeburg, Germany
• Neea Rusch, Augusta University, USA
• Rian Shambaugh, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
• Jiasi Shen, MIT, USA
• Tori Vollmer, University of Kent, UK
• Katherine Ye, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Uma Zalakain, University of Glasgow, UK

Other

• Audrey Tang, Taiwan's Digital Minister, Taiwan