Scholar
Myra B. Cohen
Google Scholar ID: i_XdxLcAAAAJ
Iowa State University
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,647
H-index
27
i10-index
60
Publications
20
Co-authors
17
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of an NSF CAREER award, an AFOSR Young Investigator Award, and a member of the DARPA Computer Science Study Group. ACM Distinguished Scientist, IEEE Senior Member, Better Scientific Software Fellow, and Fellow of Automated Software Engineering. Received the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering 2025 Barbora Bühnová Leadership Award for Women in Science and Engineering. Served on many software engineering conference program committees and was the general chair of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2015, as well as the program co-chair of ICST 2019, ESEC/FSE 2020, and ISSTA 2025.
Research Experience
- Professor and the Lanh and Oanh Nguyen Chair in Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University. She was a Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at the University of Vermont.
Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Auckland, 2004; M.S., Computer Science, University of Vermont, 1999; B.S., School of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University.
Background
- Her research focus is on software testing and self-adaptation of complex systems such as highly-configurable, embedded, or cyber-physical software. She also designs testing techniques for scientific and emerging disciplines such as bioinformatics software, molecular programs, and quantum computing.
Miscellany
- Affiliations include the Center for Wireless, Communities and Innovation (WiCI), Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Graduate Program, Human Computer Interaction Graduate Program, and LaVA-OPs: Laboratory for Variability-Aware Assurance and Testing of Organic Programs.
