Liuba Shrira is a professor of computer science at Brandeis University, whose research interests primarily involve distributed systems. Liuba Shrira received her PhD from Technion. She is affiliated with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Previously, she was a researcher in the MIT Programming Methodology Group (1986–1997), a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research (2004–2005), and a visiting professor at Technion (2010–2011). Shrira was one of the founding members of the Systers mailing list for women in computing.