Myra Cohen is a Professor and the Lanh and Oanh Nguyen Chair in Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University. Prior to that she was a Susan J. Rosowski Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she was a member of the ESQuaReD software engineering research group. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Auckland , New Zealand.
Her research interests are in software testing of highly-configurable software, search based software engineering, applications of combinatorial designs, and synergies between systems and synthetic biology, and software engineering. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, an AFOSR Young Investigator Award and has received 4 ACM Distinguished Paper awards. She serves on many software engineering conference program committees and is on the ASE Steering Committee. She was the general chair of ASE in 2015 and the program co-chair for ICST 2019 and ESEC/FSE 2020. She is an ACM distinguished scientist.
