Sherri Weitl-Harms
Associate Professor, Computer Science, Design, & Journalism · Creighton University
Research Interests
Education
Biography
Sherri Weitl-Harms is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Creighton University. In addition to several years of industry experience, she has been in academia for more than twenty-five years and served as chair of the Cyber Systems department at the University of Nebraska at Kearney for 12 years. Her research areas include machine learning/artificial intelligence, natural language processing, CS education, gamification, and spatial-temporal data mining. She has numerous peer reviewed publications and has been involved with over $12 million in research grants. Dr. Weitl-Harms is heavily involved in undergraduate research, serves as a councilor of Math/CS for the Council for Undergraduate Research, and is actively committed to service learning, with student projects that have aided hundreds of local, regional, and national organizations. She is a program committee member and reviewer for several professional conferences/journals.
Education
• Ph.D., Computer Engineering & Computer Science, University of Missouri – Columbia, 2002 Cumulative GPA: 4.00/4.00. Dissertation: Associating and Predicting Episodes in Multiple Time Series for Supporting Policy Decision Making. • MS, Iowa State University, 1990. Major: Computer Science Thesis: Comparison of Nested Query Performance of Four Relational Database Management Systems. • BS, Buena Vista University, 1987. Major: Computer Science/Math/Education; Summa Cum Laude Iowa Teacher’s Certificate 234534, Endorsement in Secondary Education, Mathematics, 1987-1997.
Recent Scopus Publications
- Toward Automated Knowledge Discovery in Case-Based Reasoning
- Iterative Service-Learning: A Computing-Based Case-study Applied to Small Rural Organizations
- Using LLMs to Establish Implicit User Sentiment of Software Desirability
- Utilizing Large Language Models to Synthesize Product Desirability Datasets
- Assessing User Experiences with ZORQ: A Gamification Framework for Computer Science Education
Links
- ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3653-2928
- Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4zrQlo4AAAAJ
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7006732713