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)

• Amal Ahmed, Northeastern University, USA
• Nada Amin, University of Cambridge, UK
• Zena M. Ariola, University of Oregon, USA
• 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
• Maria Christakis, MPI-SWS, Germany
• Eva Darulova, MPI-SWS, Germany
• Işil Dillig, University of Texas Austin, USA
• Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College London, UK
• Sue Eisenbach, Imperial College London, UK
• Azadeh Farzan, University of Toronto, Canada
• Maria Andreina Francisco Rodriguez, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Philippa Gardner, Imperial College London, UK
• Lilia Georgieva, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
• Kathleen Fisher, Tufts University, USA
• Alessandra Gorla, IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain
• Mary Hall, University of Utah, USA
• Rashina Hoda, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Alexandra Jimborean, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University, USA
• Maria Jump, Kings College, UK
• Sara Kalvala, University of Warwick, UK
• Laura Kovács, TU Wien/Chalmers, Austria/Sweden
• Marta Kwiatkowska, Oxford University, UK
• Claire Le Goues, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Crista Lopes, University of California, Irvine, USA
• Chris Martens, North Carolina State University, USA
• Heather Miller, Northeastern University/EPFL, USA/Switzerland
• Mira Mizini, TU Darmstadt, Germany
• Brigitte Pientka, McGill University, Canada
• Nadia Polikarpova, University of California, San Diego, USA
• Roopsha Samanta, Purdue University, USA
• Ina Schaefer, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
• Sharon Shoham Buchbinder, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Alexandra Silva, University College London, UK
• Ana Sokolova, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Perdita Stevens, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Jean Yang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK

Industry

• Cristina Cifuentes, Oracle Labs, Australia
• Ciera Jaspan, Google, USA
• Rezwana Karim, Samsung Research America
• Lindsey Kuper, Intel Labs, USA
• Daira Hopwood, Jacaranda Software / Zerocoin Electric Coin Company
• Kathryn McKinley, Google, USA

Open Source

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

Postdocs

• Malavika Samak, MIT, USA
• Kristina Sojakova, Cornell University, USA
• Caterina Urban, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

PhD Students

• Sara Achour, MIT, USA
• Annie Cherkaev, University of Utah, USA
• Ezgi Cicek, MPI-SWS, Germany
• Leif Andersen, Northeastern University, USA
• Ezgi Cicek, MPI-SWS, Germany
• Maryam Dabaghchian, University of Utah, USA
• Ju Gonçalves, Roskilde University, Denmark
• Anna Gommerstadt, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Sylvia Grewe, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
• Juliana Franco, Imperial College London, UK
• Jeevana Priya Inala, MIT, USA
• Juliana Alves Pereira, University of Magdeburg, Germany
• Marianna Rapoport, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Talia Ringer, University of Washington, USA
• Rian Shambaugh, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
• Jiasi Shen, MIT, USA
• Emma Tosch, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
• Katherine Ye, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Other

• Audrey Tang, Taiwan's Digital Minister, Taiwan