Liuba Shrira

Liuba Shrira is a professor of computer science at Brandeis University, whose research interests primarily involve distributed systems. She is accredited with having coined the phrase promise for the completion, or failure, of an asynchronous operation and its resulting value in the JavaScript programming language. She received her PhD from the Technion. She is affiliated with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and was previously a researcher in the MIT Programming Methodology Group from 1986 to 1997, a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research from 2004 to 2005 and a visiting professor at the Technion from 2010 to 2011. She was one of the founding members of the Systers mailing list for women in computing, and she is an ACM Distinguished Member and a member of the IEEE Computer Society. Her selected publications include Replication in the Harp File System, Providing high availability using lazy replication and Ownership Types for Object Encapsulation.