雪莉 Weitl-Harms is an Associate Professor of 计算机科学 in the 计算机科学, Design, & Journalism 部门 at Creighton University. In addition to several years of industry experience in software development, she has been in academia for more than twenty-five years 和 served as chair of the Cyber Systems department at the University of Nebraska at Kearney for 12 years. Her research areas include computer science education, 用户体验, 游戏化, machine learning/artificial intelligence, 卫生信息学, 数据科学, 和 spatial-temporal data mining. She has numerous peer reviewed journal 和 conference publications, in journals such as the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research 和 Practice, Communications of the ACM, 和 气候杂志, ACM 和 IEEE conferences, 和 the Hawaii International Conference for System 科学 (HICSS), with research funded by NSF, 美国农业部, 谷歌, 和 state agencies. Over her career, Dr. Weitl-Harms has been involved with over $2,000,000 in research grants 和 contracts.  Dr. Weitl-Harms is heavily involved in undergraduate research, serves as a councillor of Math/CS for the Council for Undergraduate Research, 和 has mentored hundreds of student publications 和 presentations.  She is actively committed to service learning, with student projects that have aided hundreds of local, 区域, 和 national organizations 和 has had grants for implementing social media plans for small businesses & non-profits through service learning. Dr. Weitl-Harms received the 1997 Governor’s Award for Teaching Excellence for Lincoln University in Missouri.  She is an editorial board member 和 reviewer for the International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling 和 Management; a program committee member 和 reviewer for the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing track on Data Mining; program committee member 和 reviewer for the International Conference on Data Mining 和 Applications (ICDMA); 和 a reviewer for several conferences included IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference 和 HICSS. She is a member of ACM, IEEE, 是, the Gamma Omicron chapter, Anita Borg Society, 和 Women in Cyber Security.  She received her PhD from the University of Missouri.